Dave Brailsford’s lofty ideals when setting up Team Sky hold been exposed under the pressure of top-level competitionTo judge from Dave Brailsford’s words the other day it seems he still doesn’t get it. He was talking in a press conference about the business of the abnormally tall salbutamol level in a urine sample taken from Chris Froome in Spain last September but not revealed by this newspaper and Le Monde – until three months later. While re-emphasising his belief that Froome had done nothing inaccurate,he added that the finding should not hold been made public.
But when Brailsford set up Team Sky eight years ago it was on the basis of absolute honesty and openness. We are going to ride clean, he said, or you can watch us carry out it. He gave every appearance of recognising that his zero-tolerance policy on doping would require the team to be obvious even beyond the letter of the law.
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Source: guardian.co.uk