Originally Posted by
junkyardking
My question: does Contador have a shot at a 4th tour win while on a team that does not have the collective strength the support him? I honestly don't think so.
Navarro had the entire peloton on their knees last year on a couple of stages - and dropped Lance, Wiggins and a few other top 10 contenders. AC has the appropriate support needed for the mountain stages I think.
And Riis is a very good tactician - IIRC, he had told AS to attack much earlier (on the stage where AS put 10 seconds on AC) b/c he felt AC was hurting. However, AS didnt. Had he done so, he might have gained another 10-15 seconds, at which point the rest of the Tour might have played out differently.