Why is bradley wiggins so good

Wiggins is scathing towards Dave Brailsford — his former boss at Sky. Yates was eased out of Sky in October Wiggins sees the threads of history tying him, Froome and Thomas, as Tour winners, to great riders of the past. Think of Coppi winning the Tour in The last three stages were km.

The last stage into Paris was km. It took them 12 hours to do it. Fuck the warm-down. They would hear that Coppi was coming past. People would put the wheelbarrows down and come out to get a glimpse of Coppi. All our debate over doping and heartache has disappeared. They carried combs in their back pocket.

Wiggins seems happy again but how will he spend his immediate future? Going around the country. Some impressions. What will he do if, shortly before his first performance, all the past pain rises up again?

Wiggins sinks back in his chair and smiles. A bottle of wine changes the world. While two riders have failed doping tests in the Tour, his faith appears to have been justified. Marginal gains. Brailsford's philosophy with the British track cycling team, which helped them dominate the Beijing Olympics, was to "aggregate marginal gains".

The idea is to look for small gains in all aspects of racing, which combine to make an important difference.

He has brought the same approach to road cycling. Wiggins' yellow time-trial skinsuit may be an example of this. Often the wearer of the yellow jersey uses a yellow time-trial skinsuit provided by the race organiser, ASO. But Brailsford must have thought that the hi-tech Team Sky suit would be faster, or just more comfortable for Wiggins.

At any rate, he took care to get ASO's permission for Wiggins to wear a Team Sky yellow skinsuit, to agree the design with ASO, and to get one made - without of course knowing that Wiggins would be race-leader when the time trials took place. How much time did this gain Wiggins? We don't know - but the point is that small gains are worth having, and will accumulate.

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