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Wiggins down and out again?

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  • June 19, 2014 at 5:45 pm #21729
    Leviathan

    ‘Bradley Wiggins has pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland after just five days, his last real chance to impress before the selection of this year’s Tour de France team by Sky.’

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jun/18/bradley-wiggins-sky-pulls-out-tour-switzerland

    I was surprised this wasn’t a road.cc article by now, or are Bradley’s woes old news? Surprised anyone? Do the words ‘Final’ ‘nail’ ‘in’ ‘the’ and ‘coffin’ come to mind? 2012 was a dream season, the longest hangover continues.

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  • June 20, 2014 at 8:24 pm #800085
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    Leviathan

    Down, definitely. Out is a
    Down, definitely. Out is a question. Some of you are saying he isn’t in the Tour team. He quite definitely wants to be in it, but said he doesn’t think it will happen. His interview was a clear bluff setting up Froome and/or the management to blame for his omission. As Andyp says, no one knows the tour team but does this make it even more likely he won’t ride? He really should ride the our if he is fit even just for the publicity, I can’t see how much better another support rider could be. If the pair of then can only can-it for a couple of weeks.

    With Henao in doubt
    #whynotwiggo

    June 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm #800083
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    700c

    Hardly ‘down and out’, the
    Hardly ‘down and out’, the form he showed in tour of California recently was impressive,

    As the commentators said at the time, he’s extremely goal orientated and knowing -or believing – he’s not on the TDF team, would mean he’s no reason to continue after a crash

    June 20, 2014 at 9:20 am #800081
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    mooleur

    andyp wrote:’He’s already out

    andyp wrote:
    ’He’s already out of the TdF.’

    Team not announced yet…have you got some inside info?

    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/jun/18/bradley-wiggins-crash-team-sky-tour-de-france-selection

    It was all over the media at the beginning of the month that he’d said he’s not going to do it. It would be pretty hard work to concentrate on both the TdF and commis and expect to do well in either, to be fair.

    June 20, 2014 at 8:49 am #800079
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    andyp

    ‘He’s already out of the
    ‘He’s already out of the TdF.’

    Team not announced yet…have you got some inside info?

    June 20, 2014 at 8:13 am #800077
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    mooleur

    glynr36 wrote:He had a crash,

    glynr36 wrote:
    He had a crash, hardly means he’s down and out.
    I imagine he decided to call it a day so he doesn’t do any more damage, target the nationals and commonwealth games.

    Exactly this, the commi’s are one of his biggest targets this summer, if I were him I’d want to keep my health in check after a big off!

    June 20, 2014 at 7:17 am #800075
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    Colin Peyresourde

    He’s already out of the TdF.
    He’s already out of the TdF.

    June 20, 2014 at 6:59 am #800073
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    glynr36

    He had a crash, hardly means
    He had a crash, hardly means he’s down and out.
    I imagine he decided to call it a day so he doesn’t do any more damage, target the nationals and commonwealth games.

    June 19, 2014 at 7:12 pm #800071
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    Gkam84

    True, I suppose I will let
    True, I suppose I will let them off because it is not the DM 😀

    June 19, 2014 at 6:32 pm #800069
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    Simon_MacMichael

    But pulled out on the fifth
    But pulled out on the fifth day of the race, if we’re going to be pedantic 😉

    June 19, 2014 at 5:55 pm #800067
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    Gkam84

    Jesus, they can’t even get it
    Jesus, they can’t even get it right from the outset….He did 4 days 👿

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