Chris Froome has made some very interesting comments about the recent problems at Team Sky.
Treble Tour de France winner and the man who many expect to rake the title again this year, Chris Froome has stopped well short of expressing full confidence in Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford.
However, speaking to the media from his home in Monaco, insisted he had always been committed to clean cycling.
He added fans could still believe in his promises after winning the Tour that his victories would stand the test of time.
He was speaking ahead of the new season and after a very challenging few months for Team Sky following revelations around the TUEs Bradley Wiggins had availed of in 2011, 2012 and 2103.
Team Sky has also been rocked by the controversy around the delivery of a package – said to contain the medicine Fluimucil – to Team Sky at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2011.
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Brailsford’s performance before a British parliamentary inquiry last month where he outlined the facts, as he believed them, around the decongestant delivered for Bradley Wiggins was seeb by many as less than convincing.
But Froome said yesterday he knew as much as anyone else on the topic.
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“There’s stuff going on, but (the riders) are focussed on the performance side of things,” he said.
“We are out there training and trying to get ready for the season.”
He also believed the recent controversy should not spill over into the coming season.
“A lot of people have asked (TUE-related) questions and we’re still waiting to get a lot of those answers, but I don’t see why that should go on into the 2017 Tour de France.
“I haven’t talked to Dave Brailsford a huge amount. Over the off-season I’ve really switched off, and have only been in touch more recently, but that was only really about planning for next year.
“The parliament stuff is not something that I’m going out and thinking about every day, I’m more focussed on my training.”
Froome was asked by the media whether Brailsford retained the credibility needed if questions were asked, as they have been in the past, about the team’s performance at the Tour de France this year.
“That’s not for me to say,” he responded.
And when pressed again, he said: “You’d have to ask (Dave Brailsford). I don’t know how he is going to respond.”
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