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.

this.
Wiggins would be an asset to any team but he is a team leader, not really much of a workhorse. can you really see him turning himself inside out on the approaches/lower slopes of big climbs and then dropping off to see Froome, Porte, Sivtsou and Kiriyenka riding off into the distance?

Although hes an epically dull rider (I much prefer Froome), he still has the ability to podium in the Tour (though I seriously doubt he could win it) if he had a team riding for him. He should go to OGE or Garmin next season and have another crack