Originally Posted by
zeo_max
It's the first sport where I see this happen. How can you trust your teammates if they're gonna try to beat you too ? Like Contador vs. Lance for example. Can someone make sense of this for me ?
I'm new to Pro Cycling, please understand.
This happens in basically every racing format. It's like auto racing, except without the drafting assistance for the most part. In auto racing, teammates will race each other and sometimes race each other so aggressively that they crash each other out of the race.
Contador and Armstrong haven't raced against each other (yet). Most of that talk is hype and discussion of what may be inevitable. The only stage they could have competed against each other so far was Arcalis, and instead what happened was Armstrong played the role that a loyal teammate would. Teammates work together, except in this case we may see Armstrong vs Contador as the two strongest riders in the race - if they're likely to finish 1-2 overall, obviously they will have individual motivation to race each other. Time will tell.