ProfTournesol said:and he went missing on 3 occasions inadvertently making himself unavailable for drug tests. He's improved his time trial pace by about 10 minutes (compared to previous years) in 1 year!!
yeah so..... what you are saying he can't do that ?? lets face it he was a pretty cr&p time trialist last year, compared to the other guys in the tour, so he was always going to make good progress.
I'm not saying its not dodgy... but some people have been known to work hard to get somewhere...