Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Andrew G » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:23 pm

[url]http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bradley-wiggins-signs-with-team-sky[/url]
I think he should have stayed with Garmin until the end of his contract. I think they'd serve him better next year and I'm sure Sky would still want him a year later so he could move then, with the benefit of seeing what the team's like for a year first.
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby -Adam- » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:32 pm

Whats there to see about the Sky team?

It will be unbelievably well run, and you know it!
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Andrew G » Thu Dec 10, 2009 1:47 pm

What is there to know?

How well they operate and perform as a top road team. Done on the track but not proven on the road and the track success wasn't overnight.
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby -Adam- » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:06 pm

The infrastructure at BC, i.e the Sky team is second to none. They will be an exceptional team to be on.
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby DavidKennett » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:22 pm

6th team in 9 years mmmmm

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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Andrew G » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:41 pm

[quote="Wiggins"]"It's like trying to win the Champions League - you need to be at Manchester United, but I'm playing at Wigan at the moment so I have to make that step up."

Dick, does he think he had last year's success on his own and Garmin had nothing to do with it? I don't know what Wiggins is like in person but his public face often seems to be that of a twat to me, at SPOTY last year he stood their trying to be Mr. Cool and just looked like a petulant schoolboy.

I'd say Sky are more like Man City than United at the moment, they've turned up with a big cheque book and waved it about. If they do as well as Garmin have in their first two years they'll have done well.

I hope it is a success and they do well but they haven't necessarily gone about things in a way to endear themselves to others in the pro peleton.
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Roy Green » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:54 pm

The important question is — does any current rider look more like an old time Mod than Bradley W?
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Grahame » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:17 am

[quote="Roy Green"]The important question is — does any current rider look more like an old time Mod than Bradley W?

Pretty much reflecting my view(do you see what I did there?) - I'd love to see him turn up for a race in a Fishtail coat with 100 mirrors and lamps on the front of his bike.
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Mike I » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:40 pm

Roy's right! Here's Paul Weller and some other bloke:

[img]http://i48.tinypic.com/vmws2o.jpg[/img]

and here's Bradley Wiggins and some other bloke

[img]http://i48.tinypic.com/eqcqjp.jpg[/img]
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby David Lombari » Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:16 pm

Cycling Weakly
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Re: Olympic Cycling Champ Wiggins Joins Team Sky

Postby Will » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:37 pm

I think Brad was getting quite a lot of stick for moving to Sky and was - in true straight-talking fashion - was telling them to piss off on his twitter page :lol:

I see the comments have gone so I reckon Sky have told him to tone it down a bit which is a bit of a shame :(
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