1\. If they’ve attracted Thomas or Froome? Most likely the biggest talking stage. Could things have been different had Geraint Thomas or Chris Froome been driving Ineos during this post? We’ll never understand. And to be fair it is hard to determine how any mixture of Ineos riders could have been a game for Jumbo-Visma. However, there’ll always be that uncertainty. It was simple to know why Froome was left outside. Even the seven-times grand tour winner will be obviously a very long way off his best and also wouldn’t happen to be at the sharp end of this GC battle. And when he is merely playing a support function, why don’t you offer the donkey work to another person? Whatever the situation, Ineos had additional seasoned cyclists, former grand tour winners, to perform the part of joint-leader/plan B/wise older thoughts. Thomas for example…. The Welshman’s exception from Ineos’ lineup has been a bet. The 34-year-old was a part of each Sky Tour club one (2012, when Thomas won Olympic track gold rather ) and’d finished first and second in the previous two variations. Ironically, he wasn’t going brilliantly in the current Dauphine. However, as we’re seeing today at Tirreno-Adriatico, he’s in good shape a couple of weeks on. Could he have been an aid to Bernal? Could he’s made life simpler for a 23-year-old who’s, lest we forget, rushing in just his third grand excursion? Hindsight is 20:20, however you need to think he’d be performing over Andrey Amador. Not to select the Costa Rican. By Thomas’s standpoint, he’s much better off where he is currently: building shape, preparing to get a crack in the Giro, which, when he can pull it off and it claims to be a terrific race with Simon Yates obviously in excellent type — could rank much higher on his own CV than assisting Bernal to the next Tour triumph. However, for Ineos? Sir Bradley Wiggins is undoubtedly. “Notably Geraint. I might see him riding within this fashion if he decided to. A Geraint because group simply changes the entire dynamic. It will transpire within the upcoming few months what precisely occurred.” 2. Has Bernal’s been an problem?
