Monsieur Wiggins, Le premier Ros Boeuf
Monsieur Wiggins, Le premier Ros Boeuf
If Bradley doesn't get knighted after this i'll renounce my citizenship. It may not have been as spectacular as Contador or Pantani, but Wiggo isn't a druggie.
We have a British winner of the tour we should rejoice, but we're British so I'm sure we'll find something to winge about!
I couldn't care less if he's a tester, he's the fastest man out there and he's a decent guy too.
totally agreeOriginally Posted by Dynamo Dan
Sad ending for his father, I'm sure he's looking down with pride though.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...of-how-1152656
No Wiggins whinge from me, well done to the first Brit to ever win the biggest bike race in the world.
read a piece in The Times yesterday about Gary Wiggins - yes very sad.
That was a spectacular time trial - 49kph for 54km, my word.
After 20 days of riding, what, 160-170km a day on average? Unthinkable.
Really looking forward to watching the finish today.
I was pondering this, while I was watching the time-trial yesterday: what would have happened if for some reason Froome was looking like he was going to come in three minutes faster than Brad - an accident for Wiggo, say, or a catastrophic loss of legs for him combined with a freakishly fast ride for Froome.
Or more realistically, let's say the pre-TT time gap had only been 30 seconds: it's quite possible that Froome on a good day could take 30 secs out of BW on a bad day.
If it was looking like that at the last split, would Yates have had to tell Froome to hold off and go slow, to stick to team orders?
I'm assuming yes.
Dave Brailsford deserved one too.
It seems natural to me to assume that someone who beats a load of drug cheats is probably a drug cheat himself.
This has been established wisdom over the last few years. But I see that now it's a Brit, most people on here think he's clean.
I'm very impressed that he's on the brink of winning and it's a wonderful acheivement, as it was for the previous winners. But I suspect he's cheating like the rest of them.
No, would have been every man for himself in the TT, no team orders. Froome waiting on the last mountain stage was all about gaining the most time for both him and Wiggins over Nibali and, the best way to do that, was to stay together. Nothing to be gained by issuing team orders on a TT. That was the joy for Sky of having one and two in the standings, they had a fall back if Wiggins had of had a bad day.
Fancied some fun on a Sunday morning Noel? :w00t:
I doubt he's a cheat, the whole of British Cycling's reputation is at stake not just his. People say the tour has become boring, but I think it's just more human because it's cleaner.
In fact the whole of cycling is cleaner now, but because the odd person is being caught and prosecuted people say it's riddled with drugs!
It's a shame when people with little knowledge of the sport cast aspersions on a rider, their only justification being the mistakes of the past.
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