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As far as I recall it was just the race wheels, he had a bike, they weren't expecting the situation he has in the UK where in the season he could race every week if he wanted to for training.

PCS has him there for 2015 too. I think he was offered the rider then DS package that Rasch was.

Although I think he only credits Richie in his book, and claims Richie noticed the problem himself rather than any team effort on his behalf. I haven't read it myself (and probably won't) but I have seen this quoted.

10:00pm news on the BBC last night had it as a main news feature, not sport, with Olympics TT retrospective piece, including the podium photo which Brad was then faded out from, an interview with Gary Verity about how disappointed he was and a solemn anchor pacing up Pall Mall. The BBC is in...

The only (ever?) road stage focussed coaching he actually had prior to 2011 that I am aware of was with the Academy U23 squad over the 2008/2009 winter and with the Giro 'in race' teachings of his experienced team in how to actually take his first few tentative steps staying at the front of the...

I don't know whether it was from Brailsford but at the time it was mentioned that Grappe requested the data on climbs he already had estimates for. I assume he had no estimates for earlier climbs.

CI was definitely at 5.5-6 kms out and he definitely attacked the other two he was with in the front even if he just rode off the front of the peloton a little earlier when Richie let the gap open. I also don't remember Porte doing any softening up of people as he was wearing the yellow jersey...

I am not arguing with that per se, nor attempting to compare TDU climbs with Dauphine ones, but his weight loss and subsequent specific training loads are not as 'miraculous' taken over six-seven months surely, and the TDU was never a target except of opportunity for him anyway, just part of his...

Coming 4th in that field in 2009 (even without starting as team leader as he apparently did) will have surely given him at least the inkling that it would be possible to win it one day. 2010 was horrible, not least because no-one at Sky at the time was focussing on developing rider fitness...

He climbed pretty well on stage 2 of the TDU as well, even though he'd only shifted some of his track weight at that point. It doesn't look so miraculous over six-seven months of dieting, road training and no track gym work.

I believe the plan was he could take off at the Flamme Rouge when if he did drag Nibali and JVdB away from Wiggins it wouldn't drop him to much time to threaten the lead. With an extra 3km of recovery time Wiggins could have probably covered them anyway.

Fair enough, so I guess he has to work for it.

I may be wrong here, but I thought he had an automatic place in the worlds as reigning Olympic champ until after Rio. That was the reason he gave for not refocussing for it last year anyway.

Of course they do, Sky employs several of them from other sports and always has. Sky originally set out with a determination to employ only non-cycling doctors for precisely this reason. They employ four doctors at a time and have since the team was started in 2010, all of them on a part time...

I don't think it can be the same, Dario couldn't eat anything for two days and ended in the Maglia Nera temporarily if I remember correctly, even getting dropped by the grupetto. Knees had a cold, which he is now over, took about four days to work through. Brad's words were 'most of the...