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Why all this hate on Wiggins? The formula for his success seems pretty sound. Keep most of your power, lose some weight. Wa-la, you can climb with the big boys. I don't see why he would do worse this year than last, especially now that he knows he can be a contender. I'd say other than...

Then I guess you're going with Frank for 3rd and Wiggins for 4th then. That's good to know. However, I think I'm going to have to disagree with you and say that Wiggins will nip Frank this year for the final podium spot. And I'm not talking about Frank winning the thing here. Gaining one...

Well you're question both Frank and Wiggins taking 3rd and 4th - who do you think has a shot of beating them? There's pretty much no one left with a legit chance of beating them. Here are the other GC 'contenders': Armstrong - joke Basso - went too hard in the Giro and has a joke of a TT...

Correct, I was looking at the GC times mistakenly. Pharazon - with regards to the time trials this year, the overall distances are roughly the same. The lack of a TTT might benefit Frank somewhat as he lost roughly 20 seconds to Wiggins last year there.

I think Frank has easily proved himself and there's no reason to doubt that Wiggin's performance was a fluke. He has shown that he still has a top GC contender's time trial, while at the same time has lightened up enough to hang with some of the top climbers in the world. The other GC...

Ummmm, I was actually thinking 3rd. I'm not sure who you think will be able to beat Wiggins, Contadoper, and the Schlecks. I hope you aren't thinking Armstrong... Frank only finished a minute and a half in front of Wiggo in stage 17 last year. Andy was 2.5 minutes. All the other mountain...

So who has the edge this year? Wiggins with increased confidence after performing well at the tour last year and taking it easy for the Giro, or Frank with his improved time trialling? There's a lot of tough climbs which would seem to give the nod to Frank, but Wiggins could put a minute or...