He asked a perfectly valid question
And it would have been the very first question most people who aren't aware of the sport - which is the VAST majority of the audience - would have asked themselves.
He could have calmly explained that it had no bearing on the race and that cycling doesn't work like that. He understands the sport, and the point of an interview like that is to help us, the audience understand it. The method we gain understanding is by having the interviewer ask the questions we most want answered. Stropping off because he doesn't like the question just makes him look like a knob-end.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 0:23,
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What he said.
And also, it is entirely different asking someone who has only 7 days previously completed over 2,000 miles of cycling if they are tired and asking someone if they have been doping.
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 2 Aug 2012, 10:43,
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