Climeon said:
where is the evidence against Wiggins that makes people think he's doping? Until 2009 he raced as a track specialist, dominating the individual pursuit. In 2009 he turned his attention to road, lost a huge amount of weight and came fourth in the tour riding for an outspokenly anti-doping team. In 2010, he himself has said he didn't put the effort in, drank a bit too much in the off-season and came to the tour out of form so did badly. In 2011 he had a solid year showing signs of being back to 2009 form, coming third in paris nice and winning the dauphine before crashing out at the tour, which he then partially recovered from to come third at the vuelta. This year he has improved again as is easily possible for someone in only his fourth proper season of racing road and is fufilling the promise first shown in 2009.
Wiggins has always been outspoken against doping and only recently was saying he hoped the lifetime Olympic ban would be kept in place for GB riders. So what has he done that makes people think he is a doper?
I agree with about all of this.
Wiggins had a stellar track background, so you know he had power, fitness and high level talent. How that has translated to the Road is pretty amazing, not many have done it.
The guys that did were typically not dedicated/specialized track guys, they also were doing road racing as well.
Wiggins has a body built for road racing, tall, skinny, low body fat, great track aerodynamics that translate to the TT incredible. Plus his ability to generate power.
With his improved body composition, it has translated well to climbing.
With that said, their is no way in he&& Wiggins can climb consistently over the 3 week period and stay with the best climbers in the TDF IMHO.
His chances will have to be make up time in the TTs, and just hope not to lose time on the big climbs against somebody that has a real GC chance..like Evans, Schleck and many other consistent top climbers out there.