Chris Froome tests positive for Salbutamol

koutoubia

velo.2010 wrote: »

Froome is still scheduled to appear on BBC SPOTY tonight, with a live interview from Majorca.

Wonder will they refer to him as a Kenyan?

WoollyRedHat

Disappointed they didn't play 'Inhaler' by Foals before introducing him.

robyntmorton

That answer was so rehearsed you could picture Dave Brailsford behind the camera with the cue cards.

NIMAN

This is great to see.

I love it when cheats are found out.

Now, if only we could get a failed test from a certain middle distance runner.

TheRiverman

robyntmorton wrote: »

That answer was so rehearsed you could picture Dave Brailsford behind the camera with the cue cards.

So rehearsed and so fake.

JK.BMC

Just watched Froomey there now- eyes flickering to his right when talking about his great achievements; then as soon as he is asked about the 'adverse finding' he stares intently at the camera, wide eyed and really sincere.....

Ah the ould pop-psychologist in me can say he is spoofing! Pretending he can remember how tough it was to win the double then pleading with us to believe that he is clean and suffers from asthma sumthin' terrible... honestly....

G'way outta dat.....!!!!

TheRiverman

JK.BMC wrote: »

Just watched Froomey there now- eyes flickering to his right when talking about his great achievements; then as soon as he is asked about the 'adverse finding' he stares intently at the camera, wide eyed and really sincere.....

Ah the ould pop-psychologist in me can say he is spoofing! Pretending he can remember how tough it was to win the double then pleading with us to believe that he is clean and suffers from asthma sumthin' terrible... honestly....

G'way outta dat.....!!!!

"On mature recollection":rolleyes:

robyntmorton

SPOTY for Mo Farah. I wish they gave it to Froome. Watching them take it back would have been hilarious.

TheRiverman

robyntmorton wrote: »

SPOTY for Mo Farah. I wish they gave it to Froome. Watching them take it back would have been hilarious.

Froome pulled the plug

JK.BMC

And Mo Farah wins the gong for SPOTY!

Ah Tis wonderful!😨

Do BBC release the final standings on the 12 nominees. Purely from a statistical perspective I would like to see how he fared given the recent shenanigans. Something really interesting in that Wiggins won the overall thing in 2012 but 4 time Tour champ Froomey doesn't get a sniff of it.
Maybe it's the Kenyan thing.... ?

TheRiverman

JK.BMC wrote: »

And Mo Farah wins the gong for SPOTY!

Ah Tis wonderful!��

Do BBC release the final standings on the 12 nominees. Purely from a statistical perspective I would like to see how he fared given the recent shenanigans. Something really interesting in that Wiggins won the overall thing in 2012 but 4 time Tour champ Froomey doesn't get a sniff of it.
Maybe it's the Kenyan thing.... ?

"Sniff of it"Steady

robyntmorton

JK.BMC wrote: »

And Mo Farah wins the gong for SPOTY!

Ah Tis wonderful!😨

Do BBC release the final standings on the 12 nominees. Purely from a statistical perspective I would like to see how he fared given the recent shenanigans. Something really interesting in that Wiggins won the overall thing in 2012 but 4 time Tour champ Froomey doesn't get a sniff of it.
Maybe it's the Kenyan thing.... ?

Should be on BBC Sport website later. Will be interesting to see.

JK.BMC

TheRiverman wrote: »

"Sniff of it"Steady

'I didn't inhale, yer honour'

velo.2010

Farah was 33-1 before the result. There's been a few surprise winners over the years. I'd imagine there was a push within UK Athletics to get members/running fans to vote for him. That motorcycle guy finishing second probably benefitted from a similar campaign with his fans.

check_six

Farah's not exactly a safe choice either though because his reputation has taken a number of blows over the years with missed out of competition tests and coaches who have come under intense scrutiny.

robyntmorton

The votes:

Mo Farah: 83,524 votes
Jonathan Rea: 80,567
Jonnie Peacock: 73,429
Anthony Joshua: 73,411
Adam Peaty: 63,739
Lewis Hamilton: 60,627
Chris Froome: 47,683
Harry Kane: 18,759
Anya Shrubsole: 15,237
Bianca Walkden: 13,962
Johanna Konta: 7,591
Elise Christie: 6,504

eeeee

Well that's depressing

JK.BMC

nee wrote: »

Well that's depressing[/QUOTE

The 8 men finished ahead of the 4 women.

I'm not too depressed myself but it wasn't exactly the most vintage year. And Froome was far from being the worst it seems.

As Eamon Dunphy might say: Dats democracy baby!


and PS - Froome got more votes than all the women combined....

velo.2010

No runaway winner as such (no pun intended). Half a million votes in two hours shows its not quite the popular voting contest they would have you believe. Easily open to a group pushing for one of their own to win.

whiteknight12

nee wrote: »

Well that's depressing

Nearly as depressing as our own charade with James McClean

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JK.BMC wrote: »

nee wrote: »

Well that's depressing[/QUOTE

The 8 men finished ahead of the 4 women.

I'm not too depressed myself but it wasn't exactly the most vintage year. And Froome was far from being the worst it seems.

As Eamon Dunphy might say: Dats democracy baby!

Well it's a lot more complicated than that, but I won't go into it as that would bring the thread off topic.

JK.BMC wrote: »

and PS - Froome got more votes than all the women combined....

Yup, not a happy result.

whiteknight12 wrote: »

Nearly as depressing as our own charade with James McClean

I have no idea who that is :pac:

Urindanger

robyntmorton wrote: »

The votes:

Mo Farah: 83,524 votes
Jonathan Rea: 80,567
Jonnie Peacock: 73,429
Anthony Joshua: 73,411
Adam Peaty: 63,739
Lewis Hamilton: 60,627
Chris Froome: 47,683
Harry Kane: 18,759
Anya Shrubsole: 15,237
Bianca Walkden: 13,962
Johanna Konta: 7,591
Elise Christie: 6,504

Whatever about Joshua not winning, but coming 4th? Who's cornflakes did he piss in. Same with Hamilton only coming 6th.

ThisRegard

robyntmorton wrote: »

SPOTY for Mo Farah. I wish they gave it to Froome. Watching them take it back would have been hilarious.

It still could happen. Taken from Farah, handed to Froome.....

morana

Urindanger wrote: »

Whatever about Joshua not winning, but coming 4th? Who's cornflakes did he piss in. Same with Hamilton only coming 6th.

as stan collymore pointed out the people that did well were all in sports that are on free tv

1bryan

there's something a little more than unsettling about seeing Froome posting instagram stories from the Sky training camp in majorca. It seems like he's treating the whole thing as a joke. I've little doubt he's 100% sure he'll get away with this.

terrydel

Jesus Froome's interview on that rubbish last ngiht was awkward, truly cringeworthy stuff. I almost felt sorry for him, almost!
And then hes beaten by a guy with even more questions against him, you really couldnt make it up.

terrydel

nee wrote: »

JK.BMC wrote: »

Well it's a lot more complicated than that, but I won't go into it as that would bring the thread off topic.



Yup, not a happy result.



I have no idea who that is :pac:

No idea who James McLean is? Aside from the fact he plays for the international soccer team, how you can have missed the annual furore over his commendable decision to refuse to bow to poppy facism is beyond me.

Macy0161

Only reading the Sticky Bottle article on the David Walsh article. To me, is Froome in big trouble if his defence is that he's taking bigger doses after races, rather than regular doses at intervals during the race? They're basically saying their not taking it as intended!

terrydel

robyntmorton wrote: »

That answer was so rehearsed you could picture Dave Brailsford behind the camera with the cue cards.

Well he kept glancing to his right for something! Someone was feeding him the answers. Could well ahve been that capret bagger Brailsford.

pelevin

I hear Brailsford is arguing that Froome wasn't even at the Vuelta and the bus driver will swear to it.