New Team Sky signing Kenny Elissonde has said that he still doesn’t know his race schedule for 2017 as the team’s preparations for the coming season were delayed as it sought to manage its response to the Bradley Wiggins TUE affair.
In September, the Fancy Bears cyber-hacking group revealed that Wiggins had received therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for the powerful corticosteroid triamcinolone acetonide ahead of the 2011 and 2012 Tours de France and the 2013 Giro d’Italia.
Some ten days passed before Team Sky manager Dave Brailsford spoke about the matter in public, insisting that Wiggins had used the corticosteroid to treat asthma, and Elissonde told L’Équipe that the British team was still managing the fall-out from the TUE case by the time its riders gathered for a get together in late October.
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“I’ll know more [about the race schedule – ed.] from December 9 when we’re at the training camp. We could have perhaps spoken about it a bit during the first camp at the end of October but with the TUE story, the team had to work a lot to manage that. It was three days to do all the medical tests and a get together,” Elissonde told L’Équipe.
“It’s a get together that they do every year but this time they didn’t have time to talk about the race programme. Ian Boswell told me that they normally talked about it but everything was a little delayed.”
Elissonde arrives at Sky after spending his entire professional career to this point at FDJ. News of the signing broke days before the Fancy Bears leaked details of Wiggins’ contentious TUEs, and Elissonde expressed surprise at the revelation.
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