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Hello, Elle,
An update!
I saw Cancellara's file was hacked.
He at least does not have asthma!
His two TUE's were given for a very bad reaction to bee stings.
I saw the photos. His face was very swollen.
On the bike race forums there are murmurings that Andrew Marr does not have the knowledge or insight to properly interview Wiggins.
And one American rider queries if it is a necessary requirement to have asthma before you can win a Grand Tour!
I liked that!

Good evening, Rusty!
We are home again!
It was lovely out earlier but it is now beginning to grow dark already!
Decidedly autumnal!
Thank you for all that information........it is indeed a grey area, as you say.
I don't know how one argues around it.........
You ask why Bradley Wiggins should have his injections just before a major cycling event........ but I suppose the argument there would be that if he were genuinely asthmatic, then just before an important Tour would be when he would most need his medication?
That would follow.....it seems there is an answer to everything!
Whether it is one that we can accept as authentic or not!
It does sound as though Fabian Cancellara is above suspicion?
In fact, I would have thought that strong doses of antihistamine would be detrimental to race conditions rather than advantageous.
The quip from the American rider might throw some mud up!
And they say mud sticks!
I have set the recorder for the Andrew Marr show, but I know nothing about how authentic it might prove to be?
I have never watched it previously.

Hello, Elle!
What about the doctors who say these folk are asthmatic and need TUE's?
Do they have agendas? Can they be trusted?
Why should not the doctors be corrupt as well?
Team Sky once employed a doctor who has since been banned for life, worldwide, for doping violations, by USADA.
He doped the Rabobank team.
Sky have acknowledged that it was a mistake to use him, but nobody is saying he or Sky did anything wrong.
My argument is that the doping would not show up in their medical files if it was done in an underhand way.
The team doctor would not know about it.

Update, Elle,
David Walsh has just tweeted.
"The more I look into Wiggins TUE's the murkier they seem.
I've tried to explain in tomorrow's ST how it happened."
So, you normally purchase Sunday Times and you can read what Walsh has to say, for yourself.

Hi, Rusty!
What you say is very true, and I doubt that anyone will get to the bottom of the doping situation.
But how to deal with it, and how to establish a level playing field for all sporting competitors?
Yes, we shall buy the Sunday Times tomorrow and I shall read what David Walsh has to say.
This hacking into private files seems so easy?
And the Banks would have us believe that online banking is safe?
I shall never be convinced of that!
I have been catching up on a programme I recorded ages ago.
"The Other Wife" based on a book of that name by Rosamunde Pilcher.
I do not recall reading the book, but I am enjoying watching the "two-parter".

Good evening, Elle!
The dopers are always ahead.
Doping used to be perfectly legal in cycling, you know.
in the early days they took strychnine and brandy and all sorts of concoctions.
The great French champion Jacques Anquetil once told a press conference, "Of course we dope. Do you think we can ride the Tour on mineral water?"
I am reading, too.
A book about County Kerry. It's good!

Hello, Elle,
Another tweet from David Walsh.
"I've seen transcript of Andrew Marr interview with Bradley Wiggins. BW and his people chose well! #don't hold your breath,"

Hi, Rusty!
So obviously the interview with Bradley Wiggins tomorrow is not live.
I hadn't known that.
But it rather sounds as though it is a "put -up" job?
Aimed specifically at clearing Wiggo of any dope allegations?
I shall watch it anyway and see!
I am now an expert in mustering cattle!
This is a fascinating book!
I am even still awake!

Hello, Elle,
That is exactly how I see it. A put-up job!
I did not know it had been recorded either, but obviously David Walsh is "in the know".
Tom Dumoulin, the Dutch rider, tweeting that Wiggins should not have been allowed to ride after taking injections for asthma.
According to Tom, you have to be nearly at death's door to get asthma injections.
If you are droving cattle, stay away from "drag".
You get all the dust there!
In a chapter or two, you will be an expert on Hereford cattle, and the great bull, King Bristol!

Good morning, Rusty!
A dreich day!
Quite a surprise after our lovely weather of late.
We are supposed to have sunshine later on
I hope so, as BB is planning on coming to the park with us this afternoon.
He will be hoping to ride his bike!
Have you been out yet for your paper?
I must phone my elder daughter in a little while......her puppy is ill.
She had to rush him to the vet, and he was put on a drip overnight.
It is thought that he ate something untoward in the park.
He has had very bad diarrhoea and consequently was very dehydrated.
It is very worrying, I hope he will be all right.
Are you watching Andrew Marr?
I missed the beginning so will watch it later.