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Jimmy, I don't think you give Cav enough credit, he's at Sky to win things, and because they are paying him a truckload of money and the majority of the british team at the olympics are Sky riders so will know each other and be comfortable on the road together.
Cav is a student of cycling history, and he wants to part of history, helping the first briton to win the tour de france is I think more of a carrot than we think, William Fotheringham was telling a story yesterday about Cav helping out the Isle of Man team at the commonwealth games, I think, when he was already knocked out of the competition, or finished, driving the car, being a impromptu DS, and generally helping out wherever he could, because he could.
Cav has personal goals to achieve, and I think he wants to achieve them with a british team. If Froome leads into a grand tour, I think the composition of the squad will be different as he wouldn't need as many climbers around him to haul him up the hill at a certain pace a'la Wiggins. You could in all honesty split the team 5/4 GC/GJ and Four climbing/general domestiques for the GC attempt and Three for Cav's leadout train.
Also whats wrong with Sky being ambitious and trying to go for the GC and the Green Jersey at the same time, more history to be made and as mentioned before that is what Cav - it would seem - is interested in most, making history...