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Flying_Monkey
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Absolutely. I don't think Wiggins will be riding the Vuelta, but a Froome, Uran, Henao combination would be fearsome indeed.
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Absolutely. I don't think Wiggins will be riding the Vuelta, but a Froome, Uran, Henao combination would be fearsome indeed.
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I think unlikely given the Olympics.
If Wiggins does win this then I think next year they again build the team around him to defend the title, however you could see Froome then being supported for the Vuelta afterwards.
The way I saw it, when Froome and Wiggins caught Nibali's group, Wiggins seemed to signal something to Froome. I think he might have been let go if Wiggins had been able to hold Nibali's wheel but since he couldn't, Froome was called back. At the end, Froome was trying to pinch a handful of seconds to buffer himself to Nibali rather than pinch KOM points.
Not so sure about that. He cracked twice (bonked?) when leading Brad's group. How he found the strength to get back on and then sprint at the end I don't know.
Pinot beat him at the line though. He's the youngest rider in the Tour, and almost didn't make the FDJ selection.
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Contador will be back for that won't he ? It will be very hard for Froome to back up this performance at the Olympics and make an impression on a fresh AC in Spain.
I guess Richie Porte can end up at the Vuelta since he isn't an Aussie Olympic pick.
BigGee
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Better to let him have a crack at the Giro while he is fresh, then he could go full blast for the tour the year after. Difficult to see Wiggo still being the better rider by then
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Flying_Monkey
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Also true. We'll just have to see. Porte, Uran and Henao could also all be contenders in their own right...
thom
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I wonder how quickly Sivtsov will heal too.
PpPete
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AC fresh maybe - but no racing in his legs, so may not be so dominant ?
How long after the 'lympics is the Vuelta ?
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Peteaud
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Just keeps getting better.
RecordAceFromNew
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Blimey Eurosport starting at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Definitely no work done then. 
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Sky definitely owe Froome a leader's spot on a GT. I wonder if they'll do it for next years Tour, assuming it's got more mountains and less TT than this year?
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I ask this as a genuine question of people who have more experience of interpreting pro racing than me. A lot of the comments talk about Wiggins having cracked, or been dropped, or not being able to respond. But it seems to me he has a different style of climbing, where he doesn't accelerate in spurts but just turns his pace up a notch. Suppose Froome had been allowed to go rather than waiting for Wiggins. Is it actually the given that many people are assuming that he'd have taken serious time out of Wiggins - or could Wiggins just have carried on grinding up, a bit faster still, and caught him after a while when he tired? And do we know how close to his limit Wiggins was working? It seems to me nothing happened on yesterday's stage that required him to give his absolute maximum, and with the knowledge of the stages still to come, would it make sense for him to have been keeping something in reserve?
