Tour de France 2012

Luci, my post wasn't directed specifically at you, just the general sense I get from this thread about how Wiggins and Sky's dominance of this years tour is being perceived.

Cycling is one of the few things in which I feel British, this is usually overridden by the fact I'm a Londoner and feel more of an affinity to Continental Europe. So personally after years/decades of waiting for a Brit to be there or there abouts, one is actually pretty nailed on to win the damn thing. This brings me joy.

I don't understand the negativity, grumble if/when Sky have dominated/and or throttled the competitive life out of the tour for years in a row a'la Discovery... They haven't even won the first one yet.

Watching John Herety on Eurosport's live show, and he made the point that just because Sky have one of the biggest budgets in the peloton, they still had to use it wisely. Which they have done, and now it is upto the other teams to take on board their methods, and ways of using the money at their disposal to catch up..

Interesting years ahead, fingers crossed...

^ I know, no worries! I'm actually trying to look at it objectively, especially after having just watched an interview with Wiggo on telly. He said that his head was all over the shop once he'd dropped his rivals, and he just couldn't get his head round going for the win.

I'm quite glad we can be a bit more critical as a nation, rather than giving a big American WOOHOO to everything that happens. Wiggo has almost got it in the bag, but we're not blinded by the victory, we're looking at* how* it was won, not just the fact that it has been won, which is what the Sky team will be doing directly after the dust has settled. How can they win again, how can they improve, what would they have done differently.

Saying that, it still has been one of the best Tours I've watched, three weeks of total immersion!