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Don't disagree with most of that....but the bit about 2013, I'm not so sure that was in his head and what was coming out of his mouth were necessarily the same things....
fmk_RoI said:I'm not sure that's accurate. He was a pretty dull domestique for a long time. And throughout the first half of 2013 he was bullish about the Tour, even talking of the double.brownbobby said:thehog said:macbindle said:Dunno. It's a job. He had an opportunity and he took it. Did what he had to do. Made some money. Retired.
His mind is messed now, but probably because he's not getting away with what Tour winners usually get away with. Same with Armstrong x7.
Hmmmmm. Dunno. He never appeared comfortable with his victory from the day after the 2012 Tour. The fact that Sky/Brailsford backed Froome the following year showed that they all knew Wiggins could never win a GT again. He knew it was completely staged for him 2012. He appeared much more at home winning TTs because he knew that’s what he was naturally capable of doing well in.
That, I think, is it in a nutshell...whatever you say about Wiggins, he's always been about the glory, if he does something he's generally playing to win.
Nothing to do with doping, I just can't imagine having put his name in the record books in 2012 he'd fancy having his limitations exposed on a more traditional TDF route in 2013....even if Sky had been willing to back him again.
That he did not enjoy 2012: he talks about that in a Graham Norton interview. The process was no fun, the victory was sweet. We can turn to doping and blame that, call it a case of the tell-tale heart, but there are other explanations. He obviously saw Froome as a rival after the Kenyan 'transformed' at the Vuelta but his position in the team was already undermined: Brailsford had lit a rocket under his **** at the end of 2010 over the way he worked within the team, wasn't stepping up as a leader. It was, it has been said by some, a step up or **** off moment. (Some of this is alluded to in My Time.) Call it disillusionment (Wiggins got disillusioned with every team he rode with) similar to Cav's disillusionment. I doubt any of them realised what a soulless machine Sky would be.
Don't disagree with most of that....but the bit about 2013, I'm not so sure that was in his head and what was coming out of his mouth were necessarily the same things....