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Clean athletes must be protected, says Sky’s Brailsford
- Updated: July 20, 2016
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HILTERFINGEN, Switzerland (AFP) — Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford hinted at his support for an Olympic ban against Russia, insisting that clean athletes must be protected. Speaking during Tuesday’s Tour de France rest day, Brailsford answered a question about the McLaren report, which calls for a ban on the entire Russian delegation from the Rio Olympics. And the 52-year-old, whose Sky leader Chris Froome is in control at the Tour, suggested he supported such a move.
“From the team’s point of view, the fundamental issue — and having worked in the Olympic environment for many, many years — is that clean athletes need to be protected,” said Brailsford. “Clean athletes work very hard to go to the biggest stages to compete and they need to do so with the full knowledge that everything that needs to be done to allow them to have a level playing field when they compete [is being done].
“If we start from the basis …
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