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The Tibetan Hat said:Could it also be that the field is pretty weak so far as challengers to Wiggins and Sky go? Cadel was the oldest post-war TdF winner last year, so perhaps his powers always likely to decline, so too the whole Basso, Leipy, Menchov, Kloden generation, then the Schleck boys are either busy crashing or moping, same goes for Gesink, plenty of other contenders have crashed out and apart from the still developing talents of guys like Molema, all that really leaves is Nibbles and Van den Broeck who have shown anything like decent form.
If a money-bags outfit like Sky who've signed a team of genuinely talented riders as genuine super-domestiques to support a rider the perfect age and vintage to win a Grand Tour wasn't dominating there'd be something wrong, and we probably think they must be losing to a bunch of dopers.
Again, it's "maybe everyone else is just having a bad Tour", for various reasons. And all of Sky are in top shape. Like the "new training methods", the whole rest of the peloton is being casually dismissed as amateurish. It just doesn't satisfy as an explanation. Also, Wiggins and Froome are possibly the 2 GC riders with the least plausible career progressions. You have to be skeptical.