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Should Cav stay at Sky? His needs are always going to be second to the yellow jersey effort, and while he has proved he can win a stage without the entire team pulling for him, Greipel's success is demonstrable of a team built around a sprinter and stage wins (although not the green jersey curiously). Conversely in Van den Broeck the same team had a GC contender that may be higher up with greater team support.
In Froome Sky have a leader that will need less nursing through the lumpy stages you feel, but even with that I don't think Cav will getting the same level of support and he has cut a slightly pitiful figure at times, World Champion jersey stuffed full of bottles, coming in well behind the peloton on stages he might have been challenging for, working as a domestique in the mountains. Stage 13 was a case in point: he would have been dragged over that climb and back to the bunch much like Greipel was, and been there for the win potntentially if he had more of a team around him.
I realise he makes the right noises in interviews, and he's clearly happy to be part of Sky challenging for yellow, but I think it's a shame he can't do more in the rainbow jersey. I also think if he wants to cement his legacy as the best sprinter of all time and carry winning stages and creeping toward the Merxck number he needs more support.
Now I've said all that he'll win today and the Champs Elysee and I'll look like more a twat than I already do.