FIVE-TIME OLYMPIC cycling champion Bradley Wiggins has to clear up the question marks remaining over why he was granted therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for a steroid, his former team-mate Chris Froome says.
Wiggins, 36, had his medical records leaked by presumed Russian hackers The Fancy Bears earlier this year.
They revealed he’d been granted the TUEs to take the banned triamcinolone to treat a pollen allergy including just before the 2012 Tour de France when he went onto become Britain’s first winner.
Froome, who was his faithful lieutenant on Team Sky that year and has won it himself three times since, told The Times that Wiggins’ denials since and responses to the questions have not resolved the matter.
People ask me, ‘Do I think it’s tarnished his (Wiggins) image?’ I certainly think it’s raised a few questions, that’s for sure,” he told the paper by phone from Australia.
“A lot of people have said it’s taken the shine off his performances back in 2012.”
Kenya-born Froome, who will attempt the rare feat of doing a Grand Tour double next year having failed in his bid this season, said he still did not know what was in a package delivered to Team Sky during the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine, which Wiggins won.
“I am completely in the dark on that,” he says.
“I have asked the question. Hopefully we will find out at the end of the investigation.
Those are questions for Brad to answer about what happened back then. In terms of who did what at the time, I still don’t know all the answers myself.”
Froome, 31, says he couldn’t fault the present Team Sky regime for being totally transparent and felt this had filtered through to spectators at the Tour de France whose attitude had changed between the angry and hostile one of 2015 towards him and his team-mates and this year.
I can only deal with what I do know. From what I have seen for myself [at Sky], it’s been completely above board. It’s been clean. I’ve laid all my cards on the table. Everything has been out there for a while in terms of my TUEs,” he said.
“We have worked really hard to try to show we are being as transparent as possible. I feel we have made a lot of headway this year, especially on the roads of the Tour.
“I felt a genuine change in mentality of the French fans, a much warmer reception than it has been in the past.”
He’s digging like a demented mole there!
That hit could of but him into ward 4…..
I hope not, that’s a maternity ward..
I “hit” a girl once, she ended up in ward 4 and now I’m paying child support.
When you unlocked the secret teams after winning the World Cup,,Team Lomu!!!
Laksanasongpong….with the kick
The forwards are like a group of Sherman Tanks moving up the field!
BUNCE!
Zinzan Brooke!
After that hit he going to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary!!
Quality game loved it love to play it now god knows were it is in my parents home.
‘CORKERRRYYY’
Absolutely quality game. Did anyone else have a thing against using hand offs? If only there was an online version!
“like two cattle trucks in a shunting yard”
Who’s da young lad at the end?
When playing with Ireland vs New Zealand:
Plan A: Tackle and get the ball to Simon Geoghegan.
Plan B: Tackle and get the ball to Simon Geoghegan.
Plan C: Tackle and get the ball to Simon Geoghegan.
Plan D: Tackle and get the ball to Simon Geoghegan.
Plan E: Tackle and get the ball to Simon Geoghegan.
You get the idea…even if some of the fans won’t be happy with that…
Theres a bit of yahoo going on there in the front row!!
“UNDERWOOD!!!!”
first time I heard of a grubber kick.
The rugby league live 2 and 3 games are pretty sweet
I was thinking of giving Rugby Union Manager a whirl before it all started :P
http://store.steampowered.com/app/328830/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1
Its in the App Store you know?
i never lost a game of that in my life that Jonah Lomu game, although the most accurate rugby game i have ever played was Rugby world cup 2011 . that was class ..
I’ve read reviews of the RWC 2015 game and it’s supposed to be absolute muck. Not even on a par with 2011 version. One to avoid apparently
They’re like cattle trucks in a shunting yard!