Amongst the moves, perhaps the most noteworthy is Sagan’s signing with Tinkoff-Saxo where he gets to wear possibly the least attractive kit in the sport. Elsewhere there has been a lot of interesting news around Sky, as Froome looks to another Tour de France win, which starts to look increasingly possible thanks to big name signings including Nicolas Roche and Leopold Konig. Those big names along with Geraint Thomas and Richie Porte should provide a phenomenal support for an assault on the title again.
The other big Sky news is that Wiggins has signed a contract extension to take him through Paris-Nice to end his time in the team with an attempt at Paris-Roubaix. He’ll follow that up with a tilt at the hour record as planned and then full-time prep for Rio as part of a new, also Sky sponsored, development team named after the riding knight himself.
With this news it seems I’s already time to sum up his career, which the Guardian did with quotes from Brailsford, and strangely a bunch of pictures of Chris Froome.
Talking of the hour record Alex Dowsett was due to have a go at it before Wiggins, but his plans have been potentially set back as he broke his collarbone in a training crash.
Thanks for all the kind messages guys, far from ideal timing but will bounce back asap.
— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) January 14, 2015He’s still hoping to get the attempt going, but he first has to recover from an operation to put it back together.
Finally some good news as MTN-Qhubeka have been granted a wild-card for the Tour de France and will be the first African-based team to ever join the race.
Expect an exciting season.
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