Tour de France 2012

^^^^I don't know about that, if he annihilates his competition in the TT tomorrow and further extends his lead, surely he will be remembered as a good rider who played to his strengths and had a team around him that could make up for his shortcomings.

History is still quite unkind about Indurain's victories. He smashed nearly all the TTs he took part in, and in a classy way too, but they are damning about his time in the mountains. I'm not saying it's right that they take this attitude, only that it seems to be the trend.
The history writers are rather fond of wrapping the truth in a romantic blanket, and it's hard to pretty up Wiggins' Tour win, even though I'm a huge fan of his and think his performance has been awesome.