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🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Reaction to Chris Froome returning an "adverse" drugs test at the Vuelta a Espana.
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| 0:00.0 | National Radio's first ever cycling show. |
| 0:02.5 | Bespoke, your tailor-made hour dedicated to cycling. |
| 0:05.8 | On Five Live. |
| 0:07.7 | So we had a very entertaining show plan for you for Bespoke Weekly this week. |
| 0:11.9 | I even had an exciting opening where I was going to go that this was the podcast all about the joy of riding bikes and then talk about rowing. |
| 0:18.1 | We were going to do it from the local bike shop and talk about the place of the local bike shop in today's internet age. |
| 0:23.6 | And then this morning, while eating my non-brand breakfast cereal, I caught this on Five Live. |
| 0:28.6 | Got some news just in regarding cycling's governing body, the UCI. |
| 0:33.6 | They've asked Team Sky to explain why Tour de France champion Chris Frum returned a urine |
| 0:40.0 | test that breached the WADA threshold at this year's Vuelta, Espania, which he won. Fruhm's |
| 0:46.5 | sample revealed a concentration of salbutamol, which exceeded the WADA threshold. Salbutamol is used to treat asthma. I'll have more on this later in the programme. So throw out the rundown and cancel going to the bike shop. We're going to do that next week because instead, the BBC's chief sports writer Tom Fordice and Rob Hales, you've come to my house this time. We're on your turf, aren't we? My place last week, |
| 1:12.2 | and fortunately this week we're at yours. Yeah, unfortunately, I've had to make the coffee, which already |
| 1:16.2 | has had the non-seal of approval. Now, we are going to talk about this news that broke early this |
| 1:22.3 | morning, and just for reference, we are recording this podcast Wednesday, around about two o'clock, just in case anything |
| 1:28.8 | has developed later on than this goes out. We're going with the facts that we have at this |
| 1:33.1 | moment. And Rob, I think let's start with you when you woke up this morning at your house, |
| 1:37.9 | you opened to it, had a flick through and saw this news. What was your initial reaction? |
| 1:41.6 | Massive disappointment. Just kind of, I couldn't quite believe it. |
| 1:47.5 | And the backlash of, I mean, fortunately, I didn't search Twitter, didn't have to look |
| 1:52.5 | too far, to be fair. |
| 1:54.1 | But disappointment in as much as the reaction from what it is without actually kind of apportioning no blame at all on Chris |
| 2:04.4 | Froome or Team Sky but what it is and the way that it's been reported as a positive dope |
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