Rollthedice said:One can only imagine what could have happened with Froome in that particular stage.
He wouldn't have finished with Nibali on that stage. So Brailsford saying Froome would have won the Tour is misguided.
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Rollthedice said:One can only imagine what could have happened with Froome in that particular stage.
Bernie's eyesore said:Why is Porte so inconsistent and prone to bad days?
mrhender said:but surely they have consistency issues in this team..
MellowJohnny said:the fact that sky are taking such a hammering is proving to me that they are in fact a clean team.
MellowJohnny said:the fact that sky are taking such a hammering is proving to me that they are in fact a clean team.
webvan said:Isn't he sick? You have to wonder why they've been keeping him in the race, makes no sense.
DirtyWorks said:That only started in 2014. 2013 and 2012, Sky just had to announce they were targeting a race and made the peloton look like amateurs at that race. And they did that for months at a time.
Something sure changed in 2014. No doubt.
mrhender said:Genuine question...
What do you think changed?
They where still facing the same authorities/persons within those?
Do they have a leack? maybe?? (SKY,UCI,ASO, ETC) since we in general have seen more BP cases of late.. Combined with external pressure they may made a judgement of beeing more conservative in the expoitations of marginal gains/grey areas??
No joke, what do you think?
webvan said:Isn't he sick? You have to wonder why they've been keeping him in the race, makes no sense.
Ledigi said:some people say Cookson is protecting Sky. But Sky went very good under MCQuaid and awful under Cookson. Something is wrong here.
SeriousSam said:Froome seemed to be in blistering, world beating form at the beginning of the Dauphine. He probably would have won the Tour.
Richie might actually be sick, rather than laying off the dope.
thehook said:What I see of Porte is what I have seen from EBH, Dombrowski etc. Decline?
I wonder why "The Train" of the last two years is no longer effective? Kiri did a nice ride today. Got shelled on the last climb......Reboot!
darwin553 said:Anyway you look at this performance from Porte - it puts into doubt the skeptics about Sky and whether they are clean.
thrawn said:How?????????????
darwin553 said:Anyone else get the feeling that Porte has fallen out of the team given the drop off in pace. That or his given up trying because he lost any chance of a podium