Originally Posted by
WCroadie
Yeah me too, I don't care for him or Sky, the way they dominate remind me of LA and postal/disco. Thomas was a track rider and he was flying up climbs and dropping everyone with Porte, that smells fishy to me.
Thomas won the 2004 Junior Paris Roubaix and rode the 2007 Tour de France for Barloworld aged 21. He's never been "just" a track rider, he happened to be a rider with a very good engine, hence why GB picked him for the team pursuit in the Olympics.
The surprising thing is that more countries don't do exactly that; get 5 or 6 road pros who you know can do a good short TT, drill them on the track every chance they get for 12 months before the Olympics, photo-bomb the podium when your charges pick up their medals.