Tour de France 2013

Has anyone considered, just for a moment, that Sky/GB (yes I say that because they have the same PD and share many staff and riders) have been doing a lot of work to find legal areas which can be improved? Remember what marginal gains actually are?

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I'm not worried about whether Sky dope or not. What is clear, is that they have taken an extremely thorough, meticulous, scientific approach to training, supplements, diet, the timing of when to ingest these things during races, with a level of organisation we possibly haven't seen before. I find the team a bit mechanical, souless. I reckon when the team and those who work for it starts to split up, and the processes and approach they use gets disseminated to other teams, we might see a more unpredicatable, exiting race.