Tour de France 2012

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...

That is what I was saying largely: he's more than happy to be part of this team and going for yellow, but if he wants to keep winning stages and over-hauling Merxck's record I think he needs a team more prepared to throw their weight behind and get him up to the front on Stages like 13. I've already said that Froome needs less nursing than Wiggins so yes, potentially if he and not Wiggins is leading the team next season they may put more weight behind Cav's challenge for green but personally I'm sceptical. EBH was one of his support men but he was rapidly deployed to replace the injured Sitsou in making the early pace on mountains when essentially he came to this race as lead out man.

That all said Geraint is Cav's usual lead out man, at least he was in the Grio, and he will be back next year. Also if I was Sky I'd go after Renshaw: he's better off as a lead out than a out and out sprinter.

Nothing wrong going for green and yellow, it's just whether it's achievable without compromising one or both challenges.