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Froome is positioning himself to be team leader at the vuelta, and possibly the giro next year, and if it's as big climb obsessed as people seem to believe it will be the tour next year.
I'm assuming there is a certain amount of lost in translation going on here as well. But I think there's more being made out of it than there actually is. Yes he's stronger than brad in the mountains, yes he can time trial, but this tour is about Brad winning it. He's being paid big money to help him achieve that. And will be paid big money to win tours in the future.
Team orders are team orders, and you have to subjugate personal ambition to that, unless wiggins blows up and the mantle falls onto his shoulders...