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Fran Millar

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  1. “And I haven't actually ever told this story, but Fran ⁇ ois Migraine, who owned Coffides, which is like a company that basically does telephone loans. I don't know what they do now, probably, you know, online loans. But he met my mum. So when we had all these teams that were sort of courting David, he met with my mum and he promised her that he would look after him, like looked her in the eyes and said, I'll look after him. And yet he did nothing. Like he built a team that was allowed to just get on with it. He sort of closed his eyes to it. And actually when the big investigation into Coffer D started, it was Francois Migraine who effectively called out my brother. He's like, I think Moncutier is probably clean, but David Miller, I wouldn't put my hand on my heart for him. And it was like, you motherfucker. Do you know what I mean?”

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  2. “Scenes, this sort of erosion of his belief that he would be able to do it clean, his recognition that actually if he really wanted to take it seriously and try and win the tour, he was going to have to cheat. The people around him, that the kind of network and the sort of framework around him was people who weren't looking out for him, weren't thinking what's best for him, weren't trying to work out how to help him fulfill his potential. They were trying to work out how to get him good enough to make enough money to win, you know, for them as a business. He was a commodity in their business.”

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  3. “Into the sport. He genuinely thought you could do it clean. You wouldn't ever have to cheat. I don't even think he really knew that much about doping at that point in his life. And pretty quickly, he realized that actually most of the guys at the very top were doping, that the doping was endemic, that the expectation was you were dope, that that was what you would need to do if you wanted to be a professional and you wanted to be any good. And he resisted it for a really long time. He was a time trialer, which is, you know, race against the clock, basically only racing yourself. And so he really stuck to his time trialing because he was like, I can do that with the technology, with aerodynamics, with focus on my training. It's a shorter period of time. There's less requirement to kind of be as cardiovascularly supreme as the guys who are trying to win the Torah are. And so he did very, very well timed trialing, went to his first tour de France and one yellow like day one. But what was happening was behind the scenes.”

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  4. “So he went into the sport in 1998, he timed pro, which for any of your listeners who know anything about cycling was the Festina year. So it was the year of the big Festina scandal where they raided all the hotel rooms and the guys all kind of protested and sat down on the road and only a few of the sort of teams were able to finish because so many guys got pulled out of the race and it was the dawning of the EPO era. So it was the era where they discovered effectively athletes and coaches had discovered that you could use EPO in the same way that you still to use altitude training to perform to increase physical performance. And it was just a transformative drug. It was, they couldn't detect it, they couldn't test for it. They brought in some interventions like a hematocrit test. So if you're hematocrit went over 450, you'd be pulled out of racing, but it was a health check. It wasn't a doping check. And it was rife, basically. So when he, this young sort of dreaming kid, when it”

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  5. “Sports a game, it's entertainment. How is it something that is fundamentally to entertain people? Basically, ruined him, like taking him down to the core of who he was. And it just, and then he built himself back up and he's, you know, he's gone on to do incredible things. But it was just the sport has had this unbelievable impact on my life, on my brother's life, on my life, on everything, the decisions I made and everything else. I guess that's why I chose those words.”

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  6. “And he had nothing to do when he was here because we've moved, so he had no friends around, so my mum entered him into a cycling club. And he'd go and do the time trials. He was super good at it by the literally from like 15 to 19, he'd gone from never really riding a road bike to being courted by nine of the biggest teams in the sport. And he got signed very young by a big French team. And they kind of made all these promises to my mum about it. And he was obviously, you know, he was a kid. He was desperate to win the tour de France and to go and fulfill his dreams and he totally fell in love with the sport and he was completely enamored by it. And in the space of five years, he'd gone from this excited, talented, you know, brilliant kid to this damaged, incredibly sad, deep, deeply, deeply shamed young man. And it was like, how has a sport done that? Like, how it's a game, right?”

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  7. “That's a big opening question. Yeah, I mean, my brother was unease a very talented guy. So when we were about 10 and 12, my parents got divorced. My dad went to live in Hong Kong and my mum stayed in the UK. I stayed with my mum. My brother went with my dad. And so when we were like kids, we'd cross in the air. So he'd come home from Hong Kong. I'd go out to.”

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  8. “Why am I doing this? I'm doing this because society wants me to do this. I'm doing this because my mates want me to do this. It's bullshit. That's not going to happen. And I think you show that little boy inside that was just like ruined by it. Sorry, it's all quite emotional.”

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