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It’s fair to say that if 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome wasn’t currently leading the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France after such a dominant performance on stage 10 the media storm surrounding his ride, and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:innuendo and allegations tha🧸t followed, would probably not have surfaced. At the very least they would have found their way to another team leader with a less expansive entourage of team buses.

However, just like in 2013 when the British rider was in similar form, the questions over his credibility have returned, such is the case to varying degrees for every maillot jaune holder in the post USADA-Armstrong era.

For Froome in particular, this race has been marked by the furore, first over the leaked or hacked videos and the oh-so-easy unfounded comparisons between Team Sky and US Postal. Throw in the fact that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lance Armstrong has turned up and you get a snapshot of the difficulties this sport faces when it comes to the restoring credibility.

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“For me, the only independent agency that could do it is WADA but then they’d be encroaching on someone else’s jurisdiction. There would have to be agreement between the UCI and another agency, such as WADA and I’m not sure the UCI are in a business of having a private arrangement with a third party.”

“He can go down that route but he needs to ask permission to release all the Passport data. It wouldn’t be illegal to have independent testing but whether it means anything is another thing. It’s like when Lance Armstrong tried to get Don Catlin to do it.”

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