Tour de France 2012

Watching today's stage again, while Wiggo's leadership was commendable, I couldn't help but observe that the situation helped him as it neutralised the threat of a Nibali attack in the final 20k. Nibbles is a greater threat than Cuddles over the next week.

Exactly. Easy to neutralise when you prefer the status quo. Especially when you have problems with your bike on the climb and have to change it on the descent.

Then again, Nibali wouldn't have gained anytime on that last descent yesterday, as Sky had such strength in the group.