2014 Pro-cycling season thread

You go to the Tour, you take your best riders. They are professionals: if they have personal issues they put them to one side to race as hard as they fucking can for as long as they can. Painting Wiggins as some maverick loose cannon who simply won't be professional and ride for who is told to is as unfair to Wiggins given the way he has been riding recently, as it is to paint Froome as nasty and vindictive. We simply don't know.

Jimmy,when you take your two best riders to the tour, and they both feel they can win it, and there is ill feeling, bad things happen, relationships suffer and it devolves into great drama for the spectator, but not so much for the team as it happens. Just think Hinault and Lemond, Why anyone on Sky would think this was a good thing to have happening in the team, they would need your head examining. Just to slip into football mode for a second, there are plenty of teams heading to the world cup who have left out players because they are cultivating a team ethos, and trying to eliminate harmful (in their eyes) personalities despite the quality they may bring to the squad. Argentina leaving out Tevez, France leaving out Nasri etc...