Froome says huge weight lifted as he is cleared for Tour de France

There has to be more to the story. Hinault and the others would not care about Froome doing nothing but taking an extra dose of asthma medicine.

I was in Europe in 1998 when performance enhancing drugs were de rigeur, and those few riders who weren’t taking them were castigated for slowing down their teams.

Perhaps we’ve reached the opposite point, where those even remotely suspected of cheating are scorned, and riders are actually trying to ride and win cleanly.

But I doubt it