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@Jimmy_Fingers
What I was trying to say in any team/sport it's difficult to satisfy the ambitions of top athletes. Usually they may vie with each other for time for top spot for a while before one leaves. Plenty of top riders had very good lieutenants but few one that is arguably better than them.
I thought the Vuelta made Froome look like a chump. I know he was fatigued which excuses his performance but some of the tactics employed during the race were daft bordering on suicidal. It was a cobbled together team and so was always going to lack the planned, discipline attack the Tour team executed and of course the DS take plenty of responsibility but Froome looks skittish under pressure and makes bad decisions, IMO. For me Wiggins is the more natural, and better leader of a team.
We'll see how this all unfolds. Sky has lost some decent personnel to their ZTP, whether without them they can be as effective in 2013 is open to debate.
Of course Friday may well render this argument moot.