Originally Posted by ed073
No Tour patron.....first time since 1999. Lots of looking at each other, by both riders and team DS's.
So given that there were only a handful of teams capable of "creating" a patron....why didnt someone standup? Everyone could see Sastre and Kloden are leaders..but the teams dont seem able to control the race?
*Thinks T-mobile couldnt have been this bad strategically if der Kasier was racing..?
*Thinks CSC couldnt have been this bad strategically if der Kasier was racing..?
We're talking about Cadel not having a team but Phonak were generally no-where to be seen in the hills and not in stage 17!
If Ullrich or Basso were racing they would have nullified a bunch of these threats, so as i'm guessing these instructions come from the DS? Why didnt this happen?