Team Sky's first TDF mistake

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On topic, Eisel is a road captain? Who cooked up this stuff? Road captain is someone who has a grandiose experience, perfect handling skills and extraordinary flair of exactly where you should rider in the peloton without endangering your leader. I saw a few very good ones: Ekimov, Hincapie, Cancellara, J.I. Gutierrez... But Eisel... LOL. Eisel is just an ex-sprinter who continued his career like a lead-out man. Being a road captain doesn't have anything to do with that

Eisel is obviously someone that Sky values in this role. His non-selection to the Tour shouldn't be an indictment on his faults but on Sky's depth as a team and potentially of their desire to have him available to aid the less experienced Henao and Uran in their efforts at the Vuelta. His role was the equal of Rogers in last year's Tour with his expertise used of course on the flat lands. The guy has been racing professionally for upwards of 13 years and every attribute that you mentioned is one that he likely has.