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Team Sky boss David Brailsford was in typically ebullient and self-aware form yesterday, condemning the Tour organisers for not doing more to protect his riders and backroom staff from the roadside abuse of spectators, which obviously should not be condoned.
“It’s interesting that we’ve just done the Tour of Italy and Chris’s case was open and the Italians were fantastic, and the Spanish the same,” said Brailsford, apparently oblivious to the abuse aimed at Froome during the Giro. “It just seems to be a French cultural thing.”
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Written by Barry Glendenning
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