Following on from Paul Kimmage's appearance on Off the Ball last night to talk about Team Sky's release of Chris Froome's performance data, fellow journalist David Walsh was on tonight's show to speak with Ger Gilroy about Froome.
It was an interview which drew plenty of interest.
David Walsh sounds quite indignant wih @gergilroy's line of questioning on @offtheball.
— Stephen McGoverИ (@TheNoveltyAct) July 22, 2015
Fascinating listening on @offtheball right now.
@gergilroy's taken off the gloves with @DavidWalshST
— Andy McGeady (@andymcgeady) July 22, 2015
On Tuesday night, Kimmage likened The Times - the sister paper of Walsh's employer The Sunday Times - to Pravda and called them 'a mouth-piece for Team Sky'.
Walsh refuted this claim, though he did agree with Kimmage regarding the ridiculousness of one particular piece from Matthew Syed.
I think it's unfair to say that The Times has become the mouth-piece for Team Sky. The piece that Paul referred to - the Matthew Syed piece on Roger Palfreeman - was a daft piece in fairness. I don't know what Matthew Syed was trying to say or what the piece was trying to do but it didn't make a lot of sense to me so criticism of that piece is totally justified.
But I'm on the race here now and for the last few days Dave Brailsford has not been talking to Matt Dickinson, whose covering the race for The Times, because he didn't like Matt Dickinson writing about Peter Verbeken, who was a former US Postal soigneur.
It got particularly feverish between Gilroy and Walsh over the Sunday Times journalist's knowledge of performance data related to Froome and what these numbers actually mean.
You can listen to the full interview below.
