Dear Wiggo said:Do you find it strange that Wiggins signed a 2 year contract with Garmin, knowing full well 100% that Sky would have a team in his second year of said contract?
Surely, if DB thought Wiggo could do anything on the road worth paying for he would have told Wiggo to sign a 1 year so there were no problems getting on the Sky team the following year?
cf with Ian Stannard, in Italy, getting shown the ropes by Max Sciandri:
After his debut senior classics season in 2008, Stannard went to live in Italy. Max Sciandri got him a ride for ISD, at the time run by Luca Scinto, whom he credits with teaching him a lot about the life of a pro (“how to train like a professional, and how to race like a professional”). He rode his first Grand Tour – the Giro.
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It was almost like just filling in a year. Those teams were all offering two-year contracts, but we all wanted Sky.
http://rouleur.cc/journal/riders/ian-stannard
Theory: Wiggo took a 2 year contract because he wanted time to get his program right before selling his services to Sky. In fact it almost makes me wonder if Sky had even offered him a ride. Old and useless is how he had been on the road up to that point. Bone idle, even. If only he could have made friends with someone who knew what to do...