In a weird way, their certainty that froome is cheating is likely to encourage more cheats. By saying that Sky are doping and winning, but we haven't caught them yet, then is almost gives the other teams carte blanche to do this themselves.
Everyone who will cheat will already be cheating right now. Pressure for contracts, vanity, glory, peer pressure. I all the books I've read these were the reasons given for doping. The French media accusations are the same ones thrown at them when they wanted Armstrong outed. By and large they love the sport of cycling. Wanting a cleaner more transparent sport doesn't mean they are being mental, nationalistic and jealous. They want proof. And why not. The same people running the show, very little changed.
Sky started with their own doctors. Within a year after poor results they employed Leinders, Rabobanks doping doctor. Co-incidence? Who knows.
Cookson, President of the UCI, his son works for SKY. Not a good position for neutrality I'd say.
Their is a lot of insinuations. Can anyone come up with a reason for teams not being more transparent?
I'm not limiting this just to SKY, it's something the whole peleton needs to do.
Thibault Pinot has a 5 yr study on him, available on the internet for anyone to read and make their own assumptions, very detailed. Why don't more teams and riders do it? The data is available but the will isn't their yet.
