You mean, why is Froome the team leader and not Porte?
He's proved himself. Porte has, though, had a couple of goes at leading the team in 3 week tours (including this year's Giro D'Italia), and things have gone wrong each time. Bad luck involved (this time he got ill, and also got penalised time for taking a wheel from someone on another team), but still, it does seem that he might not quite It - the thing you need to take you onto the next level and win a Grand Tour.
Maybe not though. We'll see next year when he'll be the protected rider at BMC (one of the few teams with a bigger budget than Sky). He'll get a crack at at leading in at least one Grand Tour.
Posted By: Tricky Hawes on July 28th 2015 at 09:37:23
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- Great article in a Times today about Team Sky (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 28, 09:11:33
- Which bit of looniness in particular were you struck by? (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 28, 09:22:26
- The sheer mental strength required to do something like that (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 28, 09:32:01
- You mean, why is Froome the team leader and not Porte? (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 28, 09:37:23
- Porte could do with a year in the Giro like what Hesjedal had (n/m) (Other Sports) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 28, 09:56:13
- You mean, why is Froome the team leader and not Porte? (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 28, 09:37:23
- The sheer mental strength required to do something like that (Other Sports) - Old Git, Jul 28, 09:32:01
- Which bit of looniness in particular were you struck by? (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Jul 28, 09:22:26
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