Froome was not wrong to wait for Wiggins
Now that we have thought about the situation of Bradley Wiggins, whether his emergence has been a trend or whether he will return on his own, we remember one of the “peaks” of British dominance in this sport with that episode between Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins in La Toussuire.
If Jumbo in the Vuelta seemed embarrassing to you, that was even more so.
In the map of dominance that Team Sky has drawn in this last era of cycling, The 2012 Tour was the door to hell.
The black train had already been configured in the Dauphiné from before: Boasson Hagen, Rogers, Porte and Froome, in this order, had to support the great and multimillion-dollar bet that Dave Brailsford had made for Brad Wiggins, brought in as a checkbook from Vaughters’ Garmin.
The plan took a couple of years to activate, but for the 2012 Tour, Wiggins was already ready even though Froome, then young and inexperienced, had doubts about the plan.
Wiggo dominated the general classification with the certainty that his rivals were far away with Froome in the middle.
Neither Evans nor Nibali were a real threat to the Sky duo. who was left alone on the final climb in La Toussuire.
There, years later, Froome himself admitted to having doubts.
Doubts that were founded by Wiggins’ weakness on the Vuelta mountain, ten months before, and also by Froome who, like every neighbor’s son, had his ambitions.
Ambitions that skyrocketed when he started shooting and saw people sticking their necks out over their shirts.
That Froome, the one with the grinder, the one before his first Tour, the one with Ventoux and the thousand theories about his accelerations, was a killing machine.
Chris Froome admits the temptation but for his own good and that of the team he did not want to skip the established plan.
In the end, for that reason, and even with the weakness shown, Bradley Wiggins won that race by over three minutes because that Tour was the last one that had decent time trials.
Froome then thought about the Tours that were to come
Froome had margin and Wiggins was at the peak of his physical maturity on the road, physical maturity, and also mental, because over time we saw that what the long Sir achieved that summer would not even be considered again. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
There were so many servitudes, sacrifices and pain during those months that one and no more.
However, no one can escape the lubricious scenario of an attack by Froome that would disarm Wiggins.
Froome then thought about many Tours to compete.
Today he has won four, and he is no longer eligible for a fifth, but seeing yourself in the grip of the best race in the world is something that, either you take it very hard, and fight for it, or sometimes you never see yourself in the same one again.
Chris Froome was then stopped, brought back into the fold.
In Team Sky there were no doubts about leadership and hierarchies, and they have been maintained even in unfavorable circumstances.
Today, eleven years later, Chris Froome could count how many riders have had to brake to help him.
«Today for you, tomorrow…» Chris Froome then had the lights to stop, as great riders such as Richie Porte, Wouter Poels, Geraint Thomas, Michal Kwiatkowski or Mikel Landa have stopped for him.
Runners who would never reach the level of their leader, but who did demonstrate on specific days that they had the legs to do something beautiful.
Something that, unfortunately for the viewer, will always remain in the imagination that Team Sky’s cycling dwarfed.
What would have happened in Team Sky if Froome had not waited for Wiggins?
Imagen: Eurosport
2024-06-26 18:12:48
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