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Wiggins still in red, his lead being nibali'ed at. Did anyone see what I did there?
Back to back tough stages now with huge climbs. Tomorrows is a 16km run in up nearly 1000m, and then on Sunday a monster stage with a huge climb of over 1200m in 12km.
From there, the stage profiles look fairly steady. I think Wiggins could take some time out of Nibali on the punchier climbs and flatter stages over the remaining week where Nibali is not the strongest. This is because I think the SKY team is much more suited to these types of stages as opposed to the big lumps of rocks with cloud round the top.
If Wiggins can stay in contention in the next couple of days I may even put my mums house on him winning.
Speaking of Mountains, I was reading Jeff Connor's excellent account of the Halfords Pro team (the Uks first pro team to enter the Tour de France). They selected a group of riders who they thought could make it to Paris and picked Paul Watson as the climber - solely on the basis he won the King of the Mountain jersey in the Milk Race - the tour of the UK.
Thats like me standing at the foot of Everest because I managed the climbing wall at the local go ape centre. I thought that was hilarious.