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This and Team Sky are becoming a farce:

www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/02/b ... ris-froome

Could be handbags at mid day on top Home Moss or one long giant yawn?

From reading a recent interview with Froome, Wiggins sounds like he was a Prima Donna during the 2012 tour and most of the team were giving him a wide berth...Shame we won't get a Lemond/Hinault unless Richie Porte is ill before the tour and Wiggins replaces him.

Guess Wiggins will be out of Sky come next year.

OGE have hinted they'd be interested...

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/m ... ey-wiggins

For Beacon members, it is very easy to get the inside story on the Froome-Wiggins debate. Given the number of Team Sky professionals training on our local roads, any one of us ask the critical question when overtaking them. They are easily identifiable, just look out for the riders wearing a black top with a vertical blue stripe. I am sure that they would love to provide you with their knowledge on the matter.

He won't:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/j ... froome-sky

what a managerial balls-up

and a great loss for Wiggins, his fans, Yorkshire and the TdF

Philip Whiteman wrote:For Beacon members, it is very easy to get the inside story on the Froome-Wiggins debate. Given the number of Team Sky professionals training on our local roads, any one of us ask the critical question when overtaking them. They are easily identifiable, just look out for the riders wearing a black top with a vertical blue stripe. I am sure that they would love to provide you with their knowledge on the matter.

I did try this the other day, didn't actually recognise the rider, must be new, and strangely he wasn't riding a Pin , are Sky about to change to Planet x?, unfortunately he refused to tell me why they treated Cav like a waiter and why Uran wasn't their leader at last year's Giro. In fact he gave every impression of not having the slightest idea what I was on about and if Sky are reduced to signing fat blokes like him things look good for Niballi and Contador.

Here's to Britain's finest rider defeating the German in Yorkshire.

Hang on. He might:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/j ... ntion-tour

Ha. Spotted a 'Sky' rider today near Romsley but he was just too fast for me to interview him

The soap opera continues.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/boasson ... ith-injury

Contador will have a lot stronger team with Rogers, Kreuziger and Roche at his disposal...

Geraint Thomas just posted on his Facebook that the team is to be announced today, oh the suspense

He won't, which leaves Porte as plan B when/if Froome falls off on the cobbles..

If Froome stops puffing on his inhaler and chatting on the radio he may avoid falling off. If Geraint can finish the Roubaix with all limbs intact then maybe Froome can as well.
But my tenner is on Contador.

Kreuziger dropped from Contador's bunch. He was his Porte in the mountains...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/28072505

My guess is that Contador knew that he wouldn't have his main man at the Tour, hence him taking Sky on single handed at the Dauphin.

Just hoping the hype lives up to the race!
The cobbles will be a big decider...

Now Millar's out too which is a shame.