Sky TdF team...

[400bhp]

will folk stop going on about Wiggins..it was raining when they done stage 5 at the tour, Wiggins would not have got of the team bus when he saw the rain. sir Dave knows Wiggins better than anybody in cycling and he couldn't trust him, that tells you everything you need to know about Wiggins

Bollox.

Have you forgotten his TT win in the Tour of Britain last year.

 

[smutchin]

Sky are taking both him and froome to the vuelta

Really? Is that official?

 

[smutchin]

But ignoring all that, the point is that Sky was the only team that left a healthy, keen to ride, in-form (British) genuine GC contender at home. In fact judging by Kennaugh's result in Austria, they left two.

Form in minor races can be misleading. I'd be very wary of reading too much into Wiggo's performances in America or Kennaugh's performances in Austria.

 

[HF2300]

...but because of the good PR Sky would have got which will be part of their equations.

I suspect that would have been part of the calculations, but they'd have seen it as potentially bad PR. They'd want the PR narrative to be about Sky winning; had they taken Wiggins, it would have been popular with Joe Public but all the press coverage would have been Wiggins vs Froome and the alleged splits in the team.

 

[Strathlubnaig]

...a

Porte has a history of having at least one bad day in a GT, I doubt he will make the podium, especially now after Sky have lost another man

...as I was saying...

 

[Ganymede]

will folk stop going on about Wiggins..it was raining when they done stage 5 at the tour, Wiggins would not have got of the team bus when he saw the rain. sir Dave knows Wiggins better than anybody in cycling and he couldn't trust him, that tells you everything you need to know about Wiggins

He's not water-soluble FFS. He lives and trains in one of the rainiest parts of Britain. That day on the Giro he was suffering from a chest infection - on form it would be water off a duck's back. People talk as though he's only ever competed in the desert.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Like a chest infection affects your ability to stay upright in the rain ?

 

[Ganymede]

Like a chest infection affects your ability to stay upright in the rain ?

Upright at all, if it's bad enough. Bloke was ill, is what I'm saying, it wasn't just the rain.

 

[Hont]

We'll never know how Wiggins would have done in this Tour, and that's part of the frustration. One thing we do know is that, as predicted, Porte was not a plan B. And, more embarrassingly for Sky, we didn't have to wait very long for this to be proven.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

We'll never know how Wiggins would have done in this Tour, and that's part of the frustration. One thing we do know is that, as predicted, Porte was not a plan B. And, more embarrassingly for Sky, we didn't have to wait very long for this to be proven.

Look on the bright side! Judging by performance, at least we know he's not doping!

 

[thom]

Form in minor races can be misleading. I'd be very wary of reading too much into Wiggo's performances in America or Kennaugh's performances in Austria.

precisely - in both cases, who there was
a) peaking for that race as opposed to the TdF
b) worth beating...

 

[Roadrider48]

Like a chest infection affects your ability to stay upright in the rain ?

What about your ability to breath properly?

 

[Roadrider48]

Brailsford didn't pick Wiggo because Froome doesn't like him!....Simple.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Let's face it, Wiggo is a one trick pony, he was only able to win in 2012 because of the unusually flat course and the dominance of the time trial stages. He was in the right place at the right time. Time for him and us to move on.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Let's face it, Wiggo is a one trick pony, he was only able to win in 2012 because of the unusually flat course and the dominance of the time trial stages. He was in the right place at the right time. Time for him and us to move on.

Absolutely! After all he's only a multiple gold medal Olympian, TdF winner, ToB and ToC winner, not to mention British TT champion and various other things I'm not knowledgeable enough to be aware of!