The good thing is that Sutton is gone, a man whose competitive instincts exceed his intelligence, and Dr Freeman who appears to have been seen as initially a safe pair of hands but really was a liability who was amenable to pushing the boundaries. Bear in mind that any TUE is also signed off by UCI so has more than just the team involved.
Its quite interesting to filter this through what we know from several sources.
Wiggins's doctor at Garmin, Prentice Steffen, commented that whilst at Garmin, Wiggins was never a very 'medical rider. The implication being that whilst at Sky he was moved towards so being.
The whilstle-blower told of how Freeman was bullied into medicating riders....by Sutton.
Perhaps most interesting of all is the connection we can now make over the hiring of Leinders. When this was first exposed, Brailsford used the death of a Spanish soigneur on Team Sky as justification for hiring Leinders ("we realised we didn't know enough about riding in the heat....bla...bla...bla"). Today, I read that the death of Txema, the soigneur, was used to get rid of an *existing team doctor.....one who took an ethical stance and wouldn't give in to pressure to
dope medicate riders unecessarily.
*I'll go back and find the names later
