Why doesn't Brailsford leave it up in the air and then monopolise the coverage of the Tour with the rivalry narrative, like Astana did in '09?
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JRanton said:People are seriously overplaying how hard this year's Tour is, probably as a reaction to last year's mountain stages. Even Froome said when the route was announced that he was surprised there weren't more serious mountain stages. Take the Ventoux stage for instance. That actually suits Wiggins very well. He's very good when only one big climbing effort is required and the preceding 220km of flat will take more out of the others than him. It's the big multi-climb stages that he struggles with because the climbing takes more out of him than it does for the pure climbers. The Alpe d'Huez stage would be hard for him of course but apart from that, and with no time bonuses available, I really don't think a fresh Wiggins, without a Giro in his legs and in last year's form, would lose much time in this year's mountain stages. Then you take into account the 65km of ITT, the 25km of TTT and I really don't think he'd be very far off the top of the podium.
taiwan said:Why doesn't Brailsford leave it up in the air and then monopolise the coverage of the Tour with the rivalry narrative, like Astana did in '09?
smiggs said:Despite the statement on the website he's done an an interview for BBC radio saying that it will be up in the air and decided during the tour (can't find a linkable source atm). You know they're just playing this for giggles right?
iZnoGouD said:This is a heack of a dilemma
In one hand you have Froome, that is stronger than Wiggo, also Wiggo will be tired
On other hand Wiggo will win Giro without any big problems, so he has a chance of going for double which is far more cool, and by doing that he will leave a big mark in cycling history
coinneach said:talk of a double is as silly as "how may tours will JtL win?"
coinneach said:Wiggins without Shane in the car is simply not the same rider as last year.