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martinvickers said:
Not really, my comment was a response to OnTheDrops, it was not a critique of the aims of team sky.
Not really, my comment was a response to OnTheDrops, it was not a critique of the aims of team sky.
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Heckler said:
then why do they get italian riders, according to them because they want to promote sky italia
The Principal Sheep said:
why? it just means collecting together some of the top british talent in the same team. that happens in a lot of teams. a lot of aussies in green edge. many spanish in movistar. gives the team a national flavor for the fans and helps some of their neopros break through. As time goes on, it may well be the case that sky merely are a british run team, but there was nothing wrong with using its beginning to give British road cycling a much needed boost. definitely done the job.
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OnTheDrops said:
Big difference between being a british team and being a team which promotes britishness (whatever that is) especially when only a third of the team hold british passports.
spalco said:
And that's an understatement.
By the end of the 2010 season Bradley Wiggins had won 4 World Championship Gold medals and 3 Olympic Gold medals.
Chris Froome's claim to fame was disqualification from the Giro for towing up a climb and this:
Chris Froome’s career so far has not been gone according to the usual scripts. He was already a promising young rider when he learned, in adolescence, that the champions of each cycling country get to wear a special jersey made up in their national colours. Precocious, he telephoned the Kenyan national cycling authorities.
"When are the Kenyan championships?"
"There aren't any."
"How do I get to wear the national champion's jersey?"
The question was greeted with a laugh.
"I tell you what, if you design the jersey, and then sew it together yourself, you can be the national champion."
He did. - Matt Rendell
http://www.itv.com/lavuelta/2011/news/matt-rendell-stage-10-review/
If i was Wiggins i would pullout and go home. no point battling on if you're sick. he will aim to be as good as he can for the tour and hope Froome cracks from the pressure so he can assume leadership. the better conditions of july will see a transformation.
Interestingly it seems that the Wiggo bashers are now worried he's going to drop out of the Giro...if he's such a zero you wonder why they would care, oh wait...
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thehog said:
ullrich has more class, mentality and talent in his left eyeball than wiggins in his entire frame
thehog said:
he did not had in mind to rider another tour after that tour
wiggo will ride the tour after the giro, so maybe he's better pull out and go in sunny mallorca or tenerife and train.
Sad to see, would be good if he sticks around to try and help the team (if his health is improving). Otherwise take a few weeks off and look to the Vuelta/Worlds.
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Surely no-one would back him against Froome at the moment? And TdF training is already underway.
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Needs to get his head sorted. He's going to get tired out again and again if he keeps slowing down so much for every corner which therefore requires him to use more energy to get back up to speed. I feel that contributed to his loss of time more than him being sick today.
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