2014 Pro-cycling season thread

Also FDJ can't afford his wage demands, Madiot was saying, so they have gone with youth. Cav efforts last year in the Giro cost him in the TdF too.

Froome laid into Henderson in his book didn't he? Tore strips off him, now Cav laying into him. Fighttttt!

Dunno, but went looking...

"The man is dipped, basted and slow-roasted in narcissism. The excerpts have him pitted against anyone who might have challenged his world view that he is exceptional.

Take the Henderson incident as an example. You're at a race and you find yourself well and truly off the back with only one other teammate to work with. Anyone who's raced knows how that feels. You've had an awful day and you're about as low as you can go. Meh. So you work together to salvage whatever you can.

At the top of a climb, you struggle a bit and your teammate finds himself down the other side in a good position to catch the last grupetto. What goes through your mind is:

• Good on him. At least someone on our team can catch a break. I'm stuffed. Wonder if I should keep going or abandon? About as memorable as last Tuesday's commute.
  
  

or

• ******* left me behind! Why didn't he wait for me? Why didn't he help tow me to the finish!? I'm foiling this away and will not forget or forgive his betrayal.
  
  

Chris Froome: Drugged up narcissist cheat. He and Armstrong should go in on a business venture together. That'd be great entertainment.

John Swanson"

The Climb (Froome's first autobiography) - Page 53 - CyclingNews Forum

The one that kills me is where he slags Henderson for disrupting the Sky "train" during a lead out. Someone needs to take him aside and explain how bicycle racing competitions are waged by men who know what they are doing.

So Henderson is able to insert himself in third to fourth position and Froome is ****ed that Henderson won't say "Pardon me. This must be your spot. By all means good man, I'll just pull to one side and let you in". Ha ha ha ha. But no. If you're too stupid to let him take your wheel, then suck it up. Or... like an experienced Cat 2, take second to last wheel and push Henderson back one position.

Good lord, it's Henderson's job to grab a wheel and wreak havoc with Sky's plans.

John Swanson

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=22364&page=55

He said Henderson got in the way of thier mountain train, not during a lead out. He did it because Froome had got in the way of one of Henderson's leadouts, not because Henderson had some GC guy to protect on the climb or something. Basically saying Greg had zero reason to be there and was just being a ******.