Wiggins could miss TDF due to chest infection, knee injury

[Cimber]

Pro riders get injured all the time, and without so much as a flicker on this forum, for your average Joe. It's a mark of the utmost respect and sign that he's held in the very highest regard, that his injury has produced so much predictable sneering, gloating and vitriol.

Get well soon, Brad.

It will always cause alot of flicker when the current Tour champ isnt able to defend his title.

 

[King Of The Wolds]

It will always cause alot of flicker when the current Tour champ isnt able to defend his title.

People were practically soiling themselves when he pulled out of the Giro, of which he wasn't the defending champ.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I know it was against a very weak field, but watching the lincoln grand prix highlights the way he climbed the cobbles was so so easy. His team pursuit palmares WR ! surely makes him able to pull in the TTT (Though he is perhaps not as good as a Stannard or Eisel to draft behind), at any rate if Wiggins' absence leaves a silver lining of him getting in the team that would be good.

What happened to Tiernan-Locke btw Vuelta plans?

Still trying to work out whether to be a British Pecharromán or a British Fischer.

 

[ferryman]

I know it was against a very weak field, but watching the lincoln grand prix highlights the way he climbed the cobbles was so so easy. His team pursuit palmares WR ! surely makes him able to pull in the TTT (Though he is perhaps not as good as a Stannard or Eisel to draft behind), at any rate if Wiggins' absence leaves a silver lining of him getting in the team that would be good.

What happened to Tiernan-Locke btw Vuelta plans?

Do you have a link for lincoln highlights you could post? Be interested to see this.

 

[dolophonic]

interesting because when he pulled out of the Giro i dont remember his knee injury being mentioned.http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-pulls-out-of-the-giro-ditalia

 

[ruamruam]

interesting because when he pulled out of the Giro i dont remember his knee injury being mentioned.http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-pulls-out-of-the-giro-ditalia

They only thought of that excuse after the Giro

 

[Cimber]

People were practically soiling themselves when he pulled out of the Giro, of which he wasn't the defending champ.

He was still defending Tour champ. The defending Tour champ will always get a whole lot of attention in any race - especially in a GT he rides to win.

 

[Cimber]

interesting because when he pulled out of the Giro i dont remember his knee injury being mentioned.http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/wiggins-pulls-out-of-the-giro-ditalia

Well they had to come up with something else. They could hardly argue that the flu was lasting till july

 

[ferryman]

Pro riders get injured all the time, and without so much as a flicker on this forum, for your average Joe. It's a mark of the utmost respect and sign that he's held in the very highest regard, that his injury has produced so much predictable sneering, gloating and vitriol.

Get well soon, Brad.

Indeed and come back fighting. For the rest, I take it you didn't follow the Schleck thread after his fall in the Dauphine last year.

 

[thehog]

The defending Tour champ will always get a whole lot of attention in any race - especially in a GT he rides to win.

Especially when the defending champion is also a knob.

 

[Microchip]

Now not to be too cynical, but I think that the two real ailments are bruised ego and cowardice, because at the Giro Wiggins lost his nerve; once Froome attacks on a mountain without his earpiece telling him to stop and pull Wiggo allong, he will have lost his physical edge as well.

So he’s officially out. The explanation sounds fishy. Sounds like if he’s not the leader, he ain’t coming.

 

[ILovecycling]

Not really, Wiggins has achieved far, far more than Pereiro ever did.

Yeah,he ****ed cycling a bit for almost one year,what a great achievement that is.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

The cound woman was right after all

 

[cineteq]

So he’s officially out. The explanation sounds fishy. Sounds like if he’s not the leader, he ain’t coming.

A Knight will never accept to be a helper, a Knight can only be a leader.

 

[gjb483]

Even as a brit, I personally don't really care whether Wiggins wins or not as I'm a fan of cycling not of any particular riders.

But I now hope he returns and wins something big again just to make the bitter, joyless crowd on this thread eat their words. With an attitude like this I just don't understand what you get out of following the sport.

Bolded for emphasis.

 

[coinneach]

Well, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

I was the only one (That I read) that remarked on the bandage hanging loose on an early wet day in the giro......pushing big gears, trying to catch up on missed training....doesn't work.

Could happen to anyone of course, but more like to happen to Wiggo as a converted track spinner who very recently (last year?) lowered his cadence and started pushing bigger gears.

Still a bit sad though

 

[Boeing]

Too bad, was looking forward to the entertainment of French cameramen panning backwards to show Wiggins being dropped once Contador launches his first early attack.

yea we dont want Evans to be all alone in that shot....

 

[Boeing]

A Knight will never accept to be a helper, a Knight can only be a leader.

it's 'good knight' now. pun intended

 

[BroDeal]

Wiggins. Persona non grinta.

 

[JimmyFingers]

Especially when the defending champion is also a knob.

Are you twelve?

 

[The Hitch]

Are you twelve?

Its like when Ahmadinejad said that peter the octopus (or whatever that nonesense was called) showed everything that is wrong with Western society.

silly comments designed to inflame from a nutter unqualified to pass judgment, but you know what, in a way hes right

 

[thehog]

Are you twelve?

13.

You have to admit he is a bit of knob.

 

[Jelantik]

Well they had to come up with something else. They could hardly argue that the flu was lasting till july

dunno. maybe just like he can peak his form all year long, he can also peak his flue all the way to july

 

[movingtarget]

DI luca is also talented. And you might have missed all the flak di luca got because those discussions belong and took place in "the clinic". you keep getting told and it keeps bouncing off you. Doping talk goes there not here, thats why di luca didnt get so much criticism here.

And yes froome did give wiggins a lot. He worked his *** of for him. And in return he got slammed by wiggins in the press.

Like I said, Froome did a great job for the team. Wiggo has become Evans pre 2010. Poison. But only to some of the keyboard knights. The real Wiggo fans won't care like the real Evan's fans. And that's the way it should be.

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

13.

You have to admit he is a bit of knob.

Lets think about this:

Not everyone gets this 'humour'.
He makes things up.
Can't keep a consistent story.
Bit of a knob.

Hold on... were we talking about Wiggins or you?