Wiggins interview on his move

iainf72
iainf72 Posts: 15,784
edited September 2008 in Pro race
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/Wig ... 66823.html

Now, question of the day time for Bradley.

You said

“I hope to do well in the Tour for myself next year. The peloton is getting slower and slower and I reckon I will have some chances.”

If that's true then could you please explain why this year Tour de France was the 5'th fastest in history?

Answers on a postcard....
Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.

Comments

  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Well, he's there and can feel what's going on.

    I just hope he can start winning. Once you strip out his wooden bowl circus rides against unknowns like Hayden Roulston or Alexei Markov, his palmares is quite light. If he doesn't want to be the lead out for Cavendish, I can understand it but he could probably earn more money by delivering by doing this job properly, by becoming the best lead out man in the world for the best sprinter, than coming 4th in the Tour prologue and winning the TT stage of the 4 days of Dunkirk and the Tour du Poitou-Charentes et de la Vienne. Not a criticism, just a hope that he can get some more recognisable success.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:
    Well, he's there and can feel what's going on.

    The numbers don't lie. How can it be getting slower when it's still inhumanly fast?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Rather, I think he was hinting that the sport is getting cleaner and if his metaphor isn't perfect when you analyse it, maybe the idea on reduced levels of doping is. Just an idea...
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:
    Rather, I think he was hinting that the sport is getting cleaner and if his metaphor isn't perfect when you analyse it, maybe the idea on reduced levels of doping is. Just an idea...

    Perhaps - But considering how little he's raced on the roads this year I don't think he's fit to judge really.

    Onto the actual subject, interesting he's signed for 2 years - He's obviously not expecting the British team to emerge in 2010.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    substitute "they" for Lionel Birnie :wink:
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:
    substitute "they" for Lionel Birnie :wink:

    I wonder if he's be commenting on our threads in the Wednesday Comment today!
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    "He is close to securing the consultancy services of a well-known and extremely experienced former team manager to advise and guide the setting up of the squad"

    Tony Capper, or perhaps Julian Clark? :evil:
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    :lol: LangerDan

    I was wondering how he'd do this, as it's one thing to ride in the controlled environment of a wooden cycling track but road cycling is far more random and tactical.

    I wonder who it is? Let's just hope it's not Bruno Roussel, Walter Goodefroot or Manolo Saiz.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Kléber wrote:
    I wonder who it is? Let's just hope it's not Bruno Roussel, Walter Goodefroot or Manolo Saiz.

    It's clearly going to be Feretti.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    iainf72 wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    I wonder who it is? Let's just hope it's not Bruno Roussel, Walter Goodefroot or Manolo Saiz.

    It's clearly going to be Feretti.

    Has he brought Sony-Ericsson as a sponsor?
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    LangerDan wrote:
    Has he brought Sony-Ericsson as a sponsor?

    Better than that! He's got personal sponship from George Soros. Well, that's what the email from george_soros_billionaire@hotmail.com says
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • BrianS
    BrianS Posts: 112
    LangerDan wrote:
    "He is close to securing the consultancy services of a well-known and extremely experienced former team manager to advise and guide the setting up of the squad"

    Tony Capper, or perhaps Julian Clark? :evil:

    Possibly.....Theo de Rooij 8)
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    No way, we'd be going from 100% ME to total liars.

    I hope de Rooij gets some geography lessons. He can't tell Mexico from Italy...
  • leguape
    leguape Posts: 986
    iainf72 wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    Well, he's there and can feel what's going on.

    The numbers don't lie. How can it be getting slower when it's still inhumanly fast?

    Wild stab in the dark but how about the distance is shorter than it was so average speed is higher. Plus it was a relatively flat one this year wasn't it?
  • Ste_S
    Ste_S Posts: 1,173
    LangerDan wrote:
    "is close to securing the consultancy services of a well-known and extremely experienced former team manager to advise and guide the setting up of the squad"

    Tony Capper, or perhaps Julian Clark? :evil:

    Roger Legeay please Mr Brailsford
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Top choice Ste_S!
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    What about David Duffield?
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • iainf72 wrote:
    Kléber wrote:
    substitute "they" for Lionel Birnie :wink:

    I wonder if he's be commenting on our threads in the Wednesday Comment today!

    Stop picking on him. I think he is ace :?
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    BrianS wrote:
    Possibly.....Theo de Rooij 8)
    This would sum things up nicely: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LM-z6VhJP70 :wink:
  • iainf72 wrote:
    Top choice Ste_S!

    Agreed.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal