A recent edition of Kilometre 0 from the Cycling Podcast was very interesting indeed.
It was titled "Sliding Doors", and the subject was the 2011 that Cobo won on the road from Froome, but then recently awarded to Froome after Cobo got busted for gear.
The majority of the content is made up of interviews with Froome and Wiggins, both conducted in the last week or so. A few interesting things from the episode:
- Wiggins said he really felt uncomfortable about operating under a dual leadership structure. He said that Sky/Ineos do it to keep their leaders on their toes, and he feels it works, but he said it really made him feel uncomfortable.
- Froome genuinely seemed to have no idea that he was in good form as he wasn't feeling well before the race.
- Similarly, Wiggins was not really focused on GC until the two of them did well in the early mountain stages.
- Froome and Wiggins roomed together during the Vuelta up until the last 5 days or so. Froome then roomed alone (apparently he had a cold), and said he felt both of them were glad to have their own space.
- Wiggins said that Froome was extremely disciplined in training, If the plan is 350 watts for 3 hours, Froome will do that; Wiggo says he and others end up trying to do 360w and it was probably not beneficial.
I got the impression that Wiggins and Froome both have a lot of respect for each other, particularly Wiggins seems to really respect Froome. I always thought Froome was a nice guy and Wiggins a big baddie, but I am revisiting my opinion recently.