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He’s been injured this year too, so potentially took a short cut to try and get some form before the end of the season in order to earn a contract for next year.
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He broke a vertebrae during recon for the Giro I think?
Not selected for tour and vuelta, told his contract wasn’t going to be renewed in June while he was recovering, does seem like a desperate ploy.
Maybe with the aim to perform well but not so well as to be tested as race leader or stage winner, (I don’t think domestiques get tested very often?) and then got popped with a targeted test based on bio passport?
Obviously not condoning it, but a bit sad as it seems like doping to not get fired, rather than to win.
Acliff
it will be interesting if he will have any stories to tell about his previous teams.
Given his age and the ban, he’s not coming back to pro tour so has no one to defend as such. One of the more high profile people to have been caught...
If he says nothing, then the commenters will still say that he is on Team Sky’s hush fund, despite being 2 teams since.
After Sky, getting 1 year contracts and finding difficult to get results to have extensions for the last years of his career, he’s probably got tempted, and got popped.