2014 Pro-cycling season thread

No Jimmy, I am not saying he is doping.
You need to take your best team, not your best riders, to the Tour. It would be silly to deny that Wiggins is emotional, volatile and unpredictable. He's achieved great things and he has had great failures. If having him on the team is a risk then a 'lesser' rider might be of more use. It's just sentiment to say he should be there because he is an ex-winner and cycling is not a sentimental sport.
I can imagine what advice Greg Lemond would give about taking a potential rival with you, however many assurances you have been given.

I was being a little facetious with the doping comment, innocent until proved guilty, but there are lots of whispers around Rogers and of course his departure from Sky coincided with the clean statement they were asked to sign.

And I think he should go on form, he looked mighty impressive on the cobbles, and considering there's a cobbled stage his experience and power might prove important. He is a master TTer, so will be of huge help in the TTT. He is an excellent rouleur and will be a great replacement for Stannard's power on the lower slopes. It's a win-win situation. You're right, cycling isn't a sentimental sport, but it is Froome's sentiment that will be the major reason why he doesn't go IMO.

And OGE will be waiting in the wings to sign him up, and that will be a brilliant move for him, riding with the Yates boys.

And yes LeMond might well be in the Froome camp on that count, but what fun it might be for us to watch if we get something like that again.