• ‘My intention was never to criticise the entire French nation’
• Brailsford had been criticised by UCI president Lappartient
Sir Dave Brailsford has apologised for his comments this week in which he suggested that spitting was “a French cultural thing.”
“My intention was never to criticise the entire French nation,” said Team Sky’s principal after the summit finish at Col du Portet. “I’m a Francophile. I think anybody who knows me knows that wasn’t my intention but I was pretty agitated about the attention we were getting.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Saint-Lary-Soulan
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