Not the first Wiggins' to have a sicknote, But; Bradley Wiggins,
Why say in your book that you never had an injection ?
Why let a hacker tell the world you took a banned Steroid( With permission) before you did ?
Why was your best ever tour result(2012 tour win) after taking this banned steroid, (with permission)
if it's not performance enhancing ?
Why do most of our top athletes seem to have asthma ?
Did the Brits just exploit this loop hole better than the Russians ?
We want transparency on every one but ourselves ?
If this can be discussed without Union Jack glasses on, it will make for a better discussion.
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But this was not hidden. It is recorded in their medical records and was not a breach of the rules.
However, due to the dirty history of the sport, mud will stick.
But as do countless others I use a nasal spray, commonly known as Beconase. I use it for an allergy. It contains a corticosteroid which is a "banned substance". I understand its use can be detected in drug tests.
Following your argument to a logical conclusion, would mean large numbers of individuals with various ailments would be precluded from professional sports competitions. That seems a tad mean and somewhat harsh.
Are you suggesting that use of a prescription drug should not be allowed by sports participants in carefully controlled and monitored situations?
Steroid injections are a legitimate targeted treatment for inflammation. It's right that sports participants should be allowed to use these to hasten recovery.
As long as there are systems in place to accommodate genuine medical usage/dosage as it seems to be with these exemptions, I really don't see a problem.
The rules are there for a reason. He has abided by the rules, as have all the other athletes with TUEs.
This is just deflecting attention from the systemic doping by Russian athletes that has been going on for years - hence the data has been sourced by Russian state-sponsored hackers. Don't fall for the schtick
Surely they need to race with their symptoms just as someone with a faster resting heart rate has to race against those with abnormally slow heart rates.
Man Does Thing He's Perfectly Entitled To Do.
They all do it so I don't regard any of them as cheats, they're still the best sportspeople in the world.
it's a shame that sportspeople don't publish these things themselves but as far as I can see all Fancy Bears have done so far is show that a lot of top performers are clean
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Sport at elite level is full of corruption and cheating
It would be niave to think that we don't have athletes that have participated
Ultimately there have been lots of rumours about abuse of TUE's for a while I understand. Whether it is to allow someone to take something normally banned or to take a drug that will mask another illegal substance taken without a TUE I do not know.
Personally I would open the doping doors and allow anything as long as it was declared. The extra impetus it would give to research might provide new drugs that have side benefits for existing chronic conditions that affect joints, bones and muscles.
How I view it is that Nairo Quintana (am just using him as an example) doesnt have asthma so is able to get to the top of the mountain with no asthmatic issues, whilst Chris Froome / Bradley Wiggins have asthma struggle to get to the top of the mountain without having any breathing issues... To counter this they take the TUE so are simply putting themselves on an equal footing with the likes of Quintana (i.e. its not like EPO which gives them an equal footing AND advantage.)
Ultimately for me, Wiggins hit the nail on the head yesterday in his interview with Andrew Marr... This isn't a case of athletes cheating, they're simply obeying of the rules and regulations of whats allowed set out by the Governing Body and the Anti-Doping Authority, yes as Marr said yesterday they're very close to the line between cheating and playing fair but surely it doesnt matter how close to the line you get provided you stay the honest side?
I think as well the case of Simon Yates should be taken into consideration... He took drugs for Asthma earlier in the year, it WASN'T on the approved list set out by the authorities so he received a ban (and that happened really quickly when it was discovered) so if the authorities do deem what Wiggins / Froome are doing wrong am sure they wont hesitate to hand out bans either.
Also why did Wiggins leave this out of his book...? I think this reaction proves why he left it out, had it been included then the instant reaction from the press and public would have been exactly as it is now
i.e. Surely there are occasions when a player goes to shoot, SCORE yet no a-a-achoo, they miss the ball and the chance is gone
Is it say 20ml (no effect); 40 ml (medium effect) or 60 ml (very strong effect)?
Wiggins was given an easy ride by Andrew Marr. who didn't follow up on so many strange answers by Bradley.
BW writes a book and states he has never had an injection to improve his performance, yet he received three intramuscular corticosteroid injections of a powerful drug just ahead of the biggest races of his life.
It was a legal loophole that Sky exploited.
Chris Froome who used an inhaler for the same condition said he had no idea that Wiggins had injections ?
Why such a secret between teammates ?
Mr cool made a terrible mistake keeping his mouth shut.
They should have been scrapped in December 1170, when 4 knights rode to Canterbury and made mincemeat out of Thomas Becket.
Fat Philip Green, Jimmy Pedo Saville etc etc.
But thats for another thread
https://reddit.com/r/peloton/comments/54cmx2/david_walsh_on_bradley_wiggins_in_sunday_times/
Certainly has me questioning it a bit more and I think he's right, Brailsford has some questions to answer.
If the latter refuses then it would certainly have me doubting him a hell of a lot more
The biggest issue I have with it is the use of the term 'I only did it to be on a level playing field'
Yet they won, they were ahead of the rest of the field. In some cases by a dispropotionate amount.
The steroids clearly helped as it pushed them on to win, whilst those who probably deserved it more.