Originally Posted by
Graham Breeze
Maybe not, unlike the 2012 British Olympic organisers whose first two flat and hill-less designed-for-Wiggo-to-win-the Gold Medal courses were rejected by the Olympic Powers-that-be.
However as a better commentator than me has written: whereas the Giro has always been a proper bike race (and so its organisers have kept going broke) the Tour has always been first and foremost a business: and it suits ASO for foreign riders to win because of the television rights revenues a foreign winner brings.
As for my mate Contador: well he is the outstanding rider of this generation but like any winner he has to have the form at the right time and not fall off his bike.
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