With froom this is to believe – Dagbladet.no

AT two Norwegian sykkelhåp not got full count in the Tour de France, is to wear both for them and us. Even with Alexander Kristoff its remarkable development over the last few seasons and Edvald Boasson Hagen’s great come back in the world elite, is our little part of this sport still fragile.

It is also the sport itself. It is therefore clearly the most important in this year’s Tour de France was to get a credible winner of a team it is possible to rely on.

Just as it happened with Chris Froome and British Team Sky.

VEL is still no bike triumphs with warranty slip. It is the settlement en cheating too young and too complex. But it is possible to consider the history, culture and record then choose who to root for.

Or more precisely:

•• You are bound to find some plausible own favorites.

Otherwise, the bicycle as a top competitive sport mean anything.

RIGHT it was undoubtedly the reason why Sky boss Dave Brailsford during the Tour chose to present some of the physiological data behind a climbing stages on Froom its three-week triumphal march. These figures of Brit force development proved itself no innocence, but they put his performance in a bike historical context. It caught up to Col de Soud on the tenth leg as for television viewers appeared to quite so inhuman, in fact, was not as amazing:

•• While Froom climbed the 1,231 meters height up the 15.3 km long ascent with an average speed of 1601 VAM (sport measurement of climbing speed), were drug addicts as Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani in its rawest junk rides up in a steady pace of over 1800 VAM.

Likewise, Froom himself In recent years, according to Sky-management material as much as 16 times in training or during competition developed more power than he impressed with this seemingly exceptional climbing. So this was a great, decisive jerks, but rather nothing more than that.

THE which however is different is senior manager Dave Brailsford and Sky team’s own path to global leadership position in sport. Even for a team chock full of economic power, it has cost. The shocking disclosure of Lance Armstrong in autumn 2012 forced Brailsford to do anything more than to promise that he would develop clean riders. He had to take the consequences of such a promise in a sport which does not exactly have been accustomed to mixing up words and actions.

Team previous use of the Belgian doctor Geert Lein Thunders tied Sky to Armstrong fraud. Wherever innocent Lein Thunders had to be in the two seasons (2010/11) when he served as medical adviser to the British, it had been a mistake to hire him. That realization became the starting point for Sky’s new line against doping which excluded all previous dealings with cheated; one austerity that in a matter of months went with three of the team’s top executives.

But that also gave Sky a whole new credibility.

DAVE Brailsford yourself tells how he systematically used the book “Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse” written by the American law professor Marianne Jennings to test their own choice of zero tolerance against doping. Where Jennings had analyzed major international company that succumbed partly because they had crossed an ethical line, directed Brailsford gaze towards his own apparently so successful cycling team.

Then challenges like this in autumn 2012 amid a historic boom for British cycle sport:

1. Chased by results: Would his team really win by whatever means?
2. Fear and silence: Was there a fear culture among riders and managers at Sky who made sure they did not dare to speak up?
3. A boss who pretended he was larger than life: Had success grown him whatsoever?
4. Weak control: Was Bailsford become too powerful in relation to Sky board?
5. Internal conflicts: Shaped side’s other strong players such as Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggens or chief coach Shane Sutton own environments that threatened the common Sky culture?
6. Bold innovations: More than any other had Brailsford even predicted the necessity to work right up against the limits of the permissible. Had this pressure for innovation in training and preparations were made that they had already crossed the ethical boundary?
7. Goodness can also be used to hide evil. As Armstrong kept cancer jobbing its like shields in front of the systematic doping, could Sky also be tempted to misuse the good reputation made had received since its inception in January 2010.

Some years later, it is possible to believe that both Brailsford and Sky got pretty good from the self criticism.

FOR much more than so so it is still not in this sport. Not far behind Froom in this year’s Tour de France followed several old drug addicts, and the scenes it tightly between them. Such is the international cycling midst of a struggle with himself.

This makes it necessary to cheer on the right. The group includes luckily both our two top riders, the Norwegian federation management and almost all the national environment, but we Norwegians are the just entered the international cycling family.

When it helps more that the best really are the best.