David Walsh: I Believe Bradley Wiggins is a Cheat | Good Morning Britain

[@teodelfuego]

Piers cannot prevent himself from interrupting his guests every single time

[@Niala8419]

And that's the key take away from this discussion 🤡

[@michiadams]

You can really see in Walsh's eyes how disappointed he was that Piers interrupted any tiny bit of nuance in what he was saying😂

[@chasey2327]

David Walsh went after Armstrong with the truth and we know what happened there! Walsh wouldn't risk his journalistic career f he wasnt sure.

[@2011hwalker]

Walsh is a bore. He is a one trick pony and his attempt to paint Wiggins in the same light is pretty disgusting. Move on and get a new topic. Of course Walsh never did, he really is so dull.

[@systemicchaos3921]

​@@2011hwalkeryou is this Bradley wiggins?

[@derekwilke6173]

Why doesn't David Walsh go after any current riders as cheats..average speeds are much much higher in the current peleton..go figure

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

@@derekwilke6173 It's up to him who he wishes to concentrate on. You're not disagreeing with the validity of what he is saying. And in any case, he may well do before long.

[@coopaloopmex]

But if he is Knighted, doesn't that mean he is exempt from criticism?

[@SavoPaddy]

Credit to Piers here, didn't bow to the patriotic sentiment towards Wiggins. David Walsh always such a diligent upstanding journalist,

[@cervelo9465]

Susana Reid was at same Uni as me same time, never saw her though, we called those people as Yuppies She is so gorgeous though, absolute model quality girl and woman

[@BaravullinBeag-r6l]

This is absolutely hilarious 🤣, bring on the clean athlete and she looks like a cartoon superhero 🦸‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tungstenkid2271]

EVERY pro cyclist is pulling some kind of performance-enhancing trick..:) As Jacques Anquetil once said "You can't win on water". PS- when I was a club cyclist in the 1970's there used to be pro-am events, but we amateurs never stood a chance because all the pros were drugged to the eyeballs.

[@Indigo280]

Used to love cycling as a kid. Such a filthy sport. Can’t watch it anymore.

[@garethwatkins6347]

Me too ❤❤❤

[@gohumberto]

It's across ALL sports. Most sports don't test their athletes as well. Don't kid yourself that Athletics, Soccer, American Football, Swimming .... and many others, aren't rife with drug cheating. The problem isn't drugs, the problem is money. When an Olympic gold medal is worth millions in sponsorship deals, people will cheat. Success, Money & Drugs are always linked.

[@cervelo9465]

The beauty of Susana Reid is totally amazing

[@michael-4k4000]

She's married 😊

[@tombailey837]

That's her only real attribute

[@stagumphs]

Where is Walsh with Podg. 💉💉💉💉

[@gohumberto]

Let's not kid ourselves. It's across ALL sports. Most sports don't test their athletes as well as cycling. Don't kid yourself that Athletics, Soccer, American Football, Swimming .... and many others, aren't rife with drug cheating. The problem isn't drugs, the problem is money. When an Olympic gold medal is worth millions in sponsorship deals, people will cheat. Success, Money & Drugs are always linked. You think that Jamaican Sprinters suddenly got so much quicker, via harder training, than USA Sprinters in the Usain Bolt era?

[@jaymutina3843]

I’ve never heard David Walsh do a piece on a doper who didn’t win.

[@jaymutina3843]

@tebalokokozela1481 because it doesn’t pay to do a piece on someone who isn’t successful. No one wants to read about it.

[@LSR1980]

The part where you said "didn't win" answers all questions my man

[@lpr5269]

It's pretty simple as a journalist. Who won the race? This guy. Must be a doper. What about the guy who came in 10th? Not a doper.

[@Daz5Daz]

Ultimately if you never fail a drug test at the time (or retrospectively) then everything else just has to be speculation and hearsay. And if an athlete applies for a TUE and gets one then again they are racing clean according to the rules of the sport. Rules need to change. Clearly.

[@AffectionateAstroStation-lx5is]

He drank turtle soup thats all.😂😂😂

[@markgriffiths2501]

So Piers introduces Sharon Davis as "clean", how does he KNOW she is clean ? Hmmmm ?

[@Susan-c1q]

My grandmother never ever done the kick flip.

[@JohnButler-iq8rl]

I just never understood how his time trial performances at 71kg were better than when he put on muscle bulk to get nearer to his ip weight nearly 80kg in a couple of subsequent world time trial championships which he won with a smaller margin over his rivals than the time trials I the 2012 tour and that years Olympic tt😢.

[@karl8805]

Love how he never mentions groome.. who blew 20x the legal limit of salbutamol, yet the "machine" was faulty😂😂. Yet it banned about 80 athletes before that 🤷‍♂️

[@dickieblench5001]

All pro cyclists have asthma. We need that Spanish guy on the chat show

[@Taz6688]

I never knew they changed bikes so often, until I saw an exposé on the power assist they hide in their bikes, they changed them so often as the batteries run down. Looking back now you see the back wheel spinning with no one the bike (crashes)

[@loopertrooper1617]

lol

[@royfr8136]

Absolute cheat and he has never been asked about it since. Instead he talks bout his charity work and his child abuse. Sick.

[@2011hwalker]

oh f off. Get it in perspective.Wiggins was obviously an amazing athlete and the TUE was a tiny supplement in the big scheme of things.

[@g-man4372]

Wiggins also smoked a lot during his cycling career.

[@CabbageCorn]

That’s fine then you can take sports enhancing drugs if you balance it out with smoking

[@chocolatetownforever7537]

Haha.

[@vivekrbs]

Christopher Froome was drinking huge quantities of juice

[@kloschuessel773]

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[@royfr8136]

All she ever did was disagree with Piers and virtue signal... and she still has a job though....

[@steelcity4581]

Doping has always been rampant in cycling and still is. How many top cyclists supposedly have asthma? It’s hilarious. The thing is though if everyone is doping what does it matter?

[@oshawaxpress]

If cheating doesn't matter we're in a bad way. It must never be tolerated or accepted.

[@Skupiznanje]

What about cyclist it is just like they do it. What about world cup football "all of them" nba, swimmer, runner, i want to say all professional sports even chess... Why to put finger only in one what about Tennis players? And this is far hardest sport of them all. Just give this guys support for what they doing. Try to cycle every day 21 day for 20km a day.

[@tomjenkinson8958]

Cheats Never Prosper look at him now.Bankrupt.

[@spleen8834]

melting his medals for drug money

[@karl8805]

Did he cheat? Where this proof? Send me the link

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

@@karl8805 Why hasn't he sued?

[@karl8805]

@@Psmith-ek5hq sued who? Why would he sue?

[@Psmith-ek5hq]

@@karl8805 Er. . .because these two men are calling him a drugs cheat. If he isn't, I'd call that libel

[@matthewevansteush6461]

who are these people doing this for, If he said this to BernardHinault for example it might end badly.

[@SouthernRotors]

The drug they are describing is primarily used to lose weight by larger cyclists. The drug wasn't added to the WADA ban list until 2014. If it's not on the ban list than it's alright. Don't hate the player, hate the game...

[@Flashheartwoof]

If that were true he wouldn’t have needed a TUE.

[@RonanOKane]

Is that the barking dog man

[@patrickwhite8144]

He was in all probability cheating, but so was every other cyclist from that era, so he still won fairly in my opinion, and I am very hesitant to even call it "cheating" .

[@COYWM2022]

Pot piers calling kettle wiggins

[@unclebob8419]

All top athletes are on some kind of performance enhancing drugs. Whats new? We wouldn't have top level sport without drugs. Here's a big YEY to drugs!

[@chocolatetownforever7537]

Walsh has pretty good sense of smell with these things. Idk....

[@ianmitchell9102]

All cyclists are on it

[@JamesLenehan-e6z]

Wiggins I doubt is clean

[@adrianoverton7892]

He's Irish , say no more

[@lukelambert3179]

This guy needs to get put more and stop harassing people.

[@kloschuessel773]

If you are very sick you cant sell yourself as a pro athlete competing at the top

[@mattyctill]

Sharon is wrong, it's not just cycling, all your favourite athletes are doping. From football to swimming to track and field. Do some research into Nico Williams and the rest of the Spanish team just for starters.

[@jsquire5pa]

Chess? 😂

[@cervelo9465]

Bradley Wiggins is not a cheater He used TUI under the rules all within the rules Not a matter for parliament Don't know why journalists are always having a go at our best and most successful people.

[@simony2801]

Your very naive

[@jamesrobert4106]

5 different TUEs. Wiggins and Froome were doped to the gills, whether or not they found a loophole.

[@craigsteyn6099]

The problem with David Walsh is that he believes everyone is a cheat

[@phililpb]

in cycling they are

[@wewhofly]

I'd suggest his problem is that this is not the case. Doesn't he believe Lemond and Froome were angels? They may have been so but Walsh did say in the past, perhaps more than once, that cycling was a sport you could simply not excel in unless you gave way, and succumbed to performance enhancing. So I'd ask him how he can point at a few distinct riders and declare them pure?

[@phililpb]

@@wewhofly Walsh loves the sport and i think optimistacly latches onto any wining rider who might be clean. He has more optimism of seeing a clean tour than most

[@normhanson981]

@@phililpb100%