Bradley Wiggins has criticized his former team.
Severely.
Winner of the Tour de France in 2012 with Sky, now Ineos Grenadiers, Bradley Wiggins especially pointed the management of the British team on this Great Loop 2020. After having discarded the former yellow jerseys Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome before the start, the training led by Dave Brailsford saw leader Egan Bernal sink and retire on Wednesday morning.
“It shows that all is not going well in this team.
They backed Bernal because he's their youngest asset, Wiggins said in his Eurosport podcast.
After his shipwreck at the Grand Colombier then towards Villard-de-Lans, they removed him too late, according to them because they are concerned about his health, but his back is not well, his knee was finished, and they knew before the Dauphiné so it shows how much they think about his future.
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Comments collected before the double of the two Ineos runners at La Roche-sur-Foron.
By taking the 18th stage, Michal Kwiatkowski and Richard Carapaz somewhat mitigated the disappointment of the British team on the 2020 Grande Boucle after the retirement of Bernal.
Kwiatkowski dedicates his victory to his former sports director who died this winter Nicolas Portal
For Nico 🖤 @INEOSGrenadiers #GreaterTogethet https://t.co/yBUEmNFUMw
- Michał Kwiatkowski (@kwiato) September 17, 2020
The Colombian, the last winner of the Tour, could be handed over by the Vuelta (20 October - 8 November), where Chris Froome is supposed to be the leader of Ineos.
"They gave Froome the Vuelta, the last leftovers, but now Bernal could go, so what's up with Froome?"
There are too many leaders on this team, ”continued Wiggins.
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During the 2019 Tour, the leaders of the British training had long refused to develop a hierarchy between Geraint Thomas, the outgoing winner and the young Bernal, victorious at Paris-Nice a few months earlier.
It was ultimately the race that had decided for them.
