millar deselected for TdF in his last year?

[JasonHolder]

It's just business and the job of a team is to maximise their chances. No room for sentiment "because it's his last race". DM had an awful championships, in the TT he stopped after a lap having been caught by Thomas (was then cruising and coughing fit to bust). I happened to be at the point in the RR where he was throwing up and coughing all at once, looking ill. The Tour starts in a few days, if I were a manager with targets to achieve I wouldn't risk it. Tough but that's how professional sport operates.

Yes that^

Pro cycling and simply riding for any decent team is merely a meat grinder.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Exactly - he's not on form and probably ill. He can't ride the TdF - it would basically mean Garmin riding with an 8-man team.

Considerably more than they had at the Giro

 

[tug benson]

Considerably more than they had at the Giro

Kidney jab