Team Sky's continuing refusal to join the Movement for Credible Cycling (MPCC) may have been endorsed once more by Chris Froome in Paris yesterday and by his sports director Nicolas Portal, but the pressure on Dave Brailsford to rethink his team's isolation from the French-founded anti-doping collective of leading teams has intensified in the past 24 hours.
With the words of Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme ringing in their ears, some believe that the British team's ongoing refusal to support the MPCC collective, allied to the continuing unwillingness to reveal the contents of the parcel that Simon Cope transported to the French Alps in June 2011 and the debilitating controversy over Bradley Wiggins' now infamous trio of TUEs, is bordering on self-sabotage.
In the Palais des Congres yesterday, the British team (and presumably the 10 other WorldTour teams that aren't part of the MPCC) was tacitly criticised by Tour director Prudhomme, who told the auditorium in central Paris that cycling should follow the anti-doping example of the MPCC. Prudhomme, it became apparent as the day wore on, is not the only figure within the French cycling establishment to have grown frustrated by the 'Wiggins Affair.'
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Prudhomme was dismissive of the 'no rules have been broken' mantra adopted by Brailsford and Team Sky for the past month. "We must go further," Prudhomme said. "Stricter rules than those of the international bodies can allow us to avoid interrogations, debates and controversies."
"We have to keep the light lit," he said, adopting the MPCC's watchword. "That's the key to our future."
But would joining the MPCC really have avoided the zero tolerance cul-de-sac that Team Sky has now found itself in?
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