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[Extrait de la chronique du Guardian] : I was already thinking about the Olympics on Saturday. It's realistic to think I can win that now. I've made so many improvements in my time trialling this year. A year ago when I was beaten by Tony Martin at the worlds [the UCI Road World Championships] by 1 minute 15 seconds, I thought I was probably just going to get a medal. But I've certainly closed the gap now, if not gone past him. It's going to be another tough race but a very realistic chance of gold. So physically, you'd think not a lot's going to change in nine days. If anything, I'm going to be fresher. And once you start thinking in those terms, that you're so fit and you've trained for the demands of the three weeks and you've actually got three days off in between the road race and the time trial, it shouldn't be a problem. I will do the road race, but I don't envisage anything other than working 100% for Mark Cavendish.
An Olympic athlete can't envisage doing the Tour de France 10 days before the biggest race of their life, a marathon or whatever, but racing is what we do as professional cyclists, and we do so many races during the year that actually having nine days off amounts to a holiday. Physically, nothing changes – if I did that time trial yesterday in nine days' time, I'm going to be in the ball park.
That's why I flew out of Paris on Sunday night to a secret location, so I can get on with riding my bike for the next couple of days, in peace and quiet with no motorbikes around me taking photographs and getting in the way. Coming off the back of this, it will kind of add the hundreds and thousands on the cake. You could say the icing is on it. We've just got to put the little cherry on top.
I've set a precedent now for performances. I can't sit and say I'll be happy with a silver, or happy with a bronze. It's got to be gold now.
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That morning, as well sharing his doubts about the possibility of crashes, Brailsford discussed the future for Sky, Wiggins and Cavendish. The message is simple: watch out world. Brailsford would like the team to improve in the classics and to win all three major tours, Giro d'Italia, Vuelta a España and Tour de France, in the same season. On that note this year's Vuelta starts on 18 August, the weekend after the London Olympics finish, and Chris Froome should be among the favourites.
Brailsford said that he would put money on the Tour winner keeping his focus this autumn and returning to the Tour next year and hailed Wiggins for producing "the best sustained set of results of any British sportsman ever". Yates had a different term for the run of results which his charge has now maintained since the Tour of Spain last August. "It's been a trail of destruction," summed up Yates. The Sky-blue wrecking ball may be only just getting in motion.
Sky veut le Tour d'Espagne cette année avec Froome, et les 3 grands tours à la suite l'année prochaine.
Scarponi annonce qu'il vient pour la montagne, pas pour le général. Sanchez a une équipe pour lui. Menchov sera le seul leader chez Katusha, puisque Rodriguez et Moreno iront en Espagne. Evans aura Moinard, Van Garderen, Hincapie et Gilbert en électron libre.
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