Originally Posted by seypat

Back to Villumsen, her reputation is going to take a hit she might not be able to recover from.

Originally Posted by Marcus_Ti

You're making a ton of assumptions as well. For example you're presuming the team's manager is not spinning a story for the benefit of covering his butt

Here's a story far more believable:
Racer: "Boss, the team's bike is slowing me down...I can go faster on the NZ federation bike"
Boss: "You can use whichever bike you want as allowed by UCI rules...but I'll deny we had this conversation later, and odds are I'll have to blame you publicly for ire from sponsors"
Racer: "....."

Boss: "see you at the race! "


How do you practice enough on a machine to know it is faster and not have your team and team manager not knowing? I mean frigging come on. It is called playing plausible deniability.