well known figure outside of cycling than Froome Let's not forget that when froome attacked cobo in the vuelta he didn't manage to stay away: cobo reeled him back in. We've seen nothing to conclusively prove that froome can ride away and *stay* away from wiggo to put enough time into him to cancel out brad's superior tting. wiggo winning was the aim. We knew that. Froome knew that when he signed. Nothing that's happened in the tour has put sky in the position where they needed to change that aim. Their tactics have done the job they set them out to do. To say "it could have been froome instead": what do they gain from that? Maybe it could. But why risk it and switch when you have a 1-2? From a team point of view that would make no sense at all. brad's put the work in to get himself into a position to win the tour. Froome's time will come when he's in that position. He's not now though. I'm sad for him in a way that he doesn't get to have a go for gc, but he's part of a team with a clear and unequivocal aim. While he's at press conferences saying "i could win, you know", cav, the world champion and most successful UK tour rider ever, is carrying bottles and riding tempo up the hills to keep sky on track. He knew the tour wasn't about him this year, too. I'd suggest his