I don’t think there have been any credible suggestions that the Salbutamol test is inherently flawed,

It’s been mentioned though.

and there don’t seem to be huge numbers of cyclists failing Salbutamol testing, which would also tend to suggest that the limit is not flawed, wouldn’t it?

Question goes how many had AAF’s? We don’t know

This could have been Sky Flying close to the sun, we will find out

Though as the last few races have shown we have aero gel on the legs, drafting behind team cars and vans on the TT, hanging onto the side of cars

https://twitter.com/velocast/status/904660253203189760

Can’t see if those guys were banned?

What’s all that got to do with Chris Froome’s AAF?

Nothing more a question about what people call cheating these days, gamming the rules etc.

Nothing more a question about what people call cheating these days, gamming the rules etc.

I’m not sure what you a getting at either. Hanging onto cars isn’t allowed, never has been. It’s not really comparable to gaming TUEs.

Well in that case I’d assume you would go for severe penalties fro those offences, we now have a situation where using the full width of the rules is called cheating and hanging off a car or drafting a van on a TT is a slap on the wrists.

To complain about the TUE use etc. is one thing, BUT like every other sport people will go right up to the line without crossing it.

Well, this may shed some light… something about cats and pigeons…

Former Team Sky doctor at centre of Jiffy bag scandal to publish book just two weeks before the Tour de France

People have always hung on to cars and used “sticky bottles”. It’s quite often overlooked by the commissaire when it is used to get back to the bunch after a puncture or a mechanical, or where it is briefly done by a rider who is not contesting the overall GC or a stage result. In other words it can be a way of cutting someone a bit of slack where the overall results are not influenced, and everyone understands that.

However, if it is blatantly used to gain an unfair advantage that affects the race result, you will get more than a slap on the wrist. In fact, some chap called Froome was DQed from the 2010 Giro for hanging on to a motorbike!

If he wishes to avoid professional misconduct as well as criminal charges, he is going to have to tread a very fine line there.

Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha…