Wiggins to Sky (fo' real?)

Link to L'Equipe in French.

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Still no confirmation anywhere, at least that I can find.

If it’s true, I wonder what Garmin’s getting to make up for it? Just a shitload of money?

It was just a long race--Edvald Boasson Hagen, on the Giro

by majope on Nov 21, 2009 10:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

So now as the saga of

AC is over the media is now stirring it up for Wiggins? The media is bored like us. I can’t imagine it’s true.

by cyclingdiva on Nov 21, 2009 10:32 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I don't think it's safe to say the saga is over...

it’s way too convoluted.

by Steno on Nov 21, 2009 1:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"stirring it up fpr Wiggins"?

Wiggins could put a stop to this right now if he wanted.

by civetta on Nov 21, 2009 1:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

sticks fingers in ears

by civetta on Nov 21, 2009 11:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

From email to Cyclingweekly.com from JV re:L'Equipe story

“Brad has a contract for 2010. That is my statement. If they have such a great source, they should reveal him/her.” Vaughters told Cycling Weekly.

"Drawing on my fine command of language I said nothing."- Groucho

by Mark Frank on Nov 21, 2009 11:21 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

LOL

(which, by the way, is Dutch for “fun”).

by tedvdw on Nov 21, 2009 11:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

At what point does Vaughters begin to wish it was true.

"Drawing on my fine command of language I said nothing."- Groucho

by Mark Frank on Nov 21, 2009 5:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i'm sick of these transfer stories

can we have a bike race already

"well...you live in england so: you love the rain. loves the queen. hates cycling. based on mr bean had a tremendous amount of humour. all ride in a mini cooper. all getting drunk before the age of 12. getting drunk at least 3 times a day."- frinking, 7/9/09

by benrazor on Nov 21, 2009 3:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

You missed it

Jens failed to come through with the GT-stage re-enactments (and raised interesting questions about the Whereabouts of the can of chickpeas), so Ted provided some links to live ’cross.

(I am not saying that ‘cross is necessarily acceptable as a ’bike race’, but others seem to think so…)

by Lou... on Nov 21, 2009 4:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

People, bikes, going fast, lots of ugly-looking expressions...

Sounds like a bike race to me.

by dansel on Nov 21, 2009 8:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Plus mud and hurdles and stairs.

What’s not to like?!

"If I were World Road Race Champion, I would wear black shorts. That probably has more to do with me being on the wiser side of 30 and understanding better that the decisions I make now never really go away. White shorts would not be something I'd be proud of...." - David Millar, in Rouleur.

by Albertina on Nov 23, 2009 4:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Nothing on Gazzetta or Sporza

So I’m calling this bluff. There’s only so much reporting you can do on “so-and-so has big goals for 2010”, so this is what happens…

by dansel on Nov 21, 2009 8:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Gav is speculating on the Twit that

it might be Sky feeding l’Equipe, trying to make it happen any which way.

by tedvdw on Nov 21, 2009 8:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ja

It’s not like L’Eqiupe to run a story like this on nothing – Gazzetta does on occasion, but l’Equipe doesn’t usually. So I have a feeling someone is feeding this one for some reason – either to put the pressure on Vaughters to take the buy-out or to attract an additional sponsor to Team Sky. Not quite sure, but I read this one as something more than idle, bored press chatter.

by gavia on Nov 21, 2009 11:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

pressure on Vaughters I'd say

by civetta on Nov 22, 2009 9:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Are Sky the ones circulating the rumor

that the UCI is planning to ban sideburns longer than 3 cm in 2010 too?

Because that would have JV quaking in his (british suede) boots.

by Jens on Nov 22, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Adios to Vladimir Karpets as well.

by dansel on Nov 22, 2009 11:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How does this pressure Vaughters?

I don’t see it. They can rumour til the cows come home and it Garmin still has the contract, and don’t see Wiggins doing anything but his normal tweets. They may make a deal, but I don’t see how this is pressure or would change things

by Markk on Nov 22, 2009 11:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Trying to annoy the crap out of JV?

Maybe they’re just hoping he’ll get tired of having Wiggo and will give him up for free.

by dansel on Nov 22, 2009 11:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm still interested in what Wiggins might want

If he bailed on the last year of his contract with Garmin, I’d be a little less disposed to like him.(Big loss I know). During the TDF they supported him admirably and so I think that his contract should be honoured. That said, I know that at this stage it’s everyone else twittering and talking about Sky rather than Wiggins himself.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Nov 23, 2009 12:31 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Really?

What of his Wigan v. Man Utd comments? What of all the deliberately ambiguous/mischievous stuff he’s been coming out with all summer?

by civetta on Nov 23, 2009 6:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So what of it?

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Nov 23, 2009 6:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's not everyone else & not him , then, is it?

by civetta on Nov 23, 2009 6:59 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

That was months ago, but really I don't care very much

except for the fact that I do believe in honouring a contract if people have honoured you. Albertina’s comment about this being a soap opera is well made.

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Nov 23, 2009 7:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

They seem to be working on the football principle

that if you talk about something often enough, voila, it happens. Whereas when, say, Fedrigo was making wanting to leave noises his team just told him to shut up & get on with it, end of story, what tends to happen in football is that if there’s enough talk a player is said to be “unsettled” & a “disruptive influence” & the manager/chairman decide they’re best shot of him, whether they truly want to sell or not. So players (or their agents or teams who want them) plant press stories of very much of this ilk. Joleon Lescott’s laughable transfer from Everton to Man City would be a classic example. So I think it pressures Vaughters in the sense of does he really want to have someone on his team who has made it perfectly plain (albeit indirectly) that he does not want to be there? Whether it works or not is another matter.

by civetta on Nov 23, 2009 6:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

This is the kind of thing I was thinking about, yes.

by gavia on Nov 23, 2009 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Good post.

That’s what I see too.

by ursula on Nov 23, 2009 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Tottenham 9 - Wigan 1

by andrewp on Nov 23, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wiggins keen for Team Sky switch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8372698.stm

by lucybears on Nov 23, 2009 4:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Can they just sort out this soap opera already?

I’m sick to death of it!

by Albertina on Nov 23, 2009 4:52 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Eastenders, Emmerdale etc

It’s always the same with brits. They have to turn these things into neverending series that just get worse every year.

Emmerdale at least had impressive facial hair once.

When they start running topless pics of Twiggo in the lads mags, that’s when we have real problems.

by Jens on Nov 23, 2009 5:02 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

My Mother is obsessed with Eastenders. Don't understand why.

The only soap I ever watched was Neighbours, after lunch at university. Mind numbing entertainment before the start of the working afternoon!

by Albertina on Nov 23, 2009 6:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I became a connoisseur at uni too :-)

Bad soaps and quality “All creatures great and small” saved me from many a productive hour.

by Jens on Nov 23, 2009 6:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Eastenders looks good next to Neighbours

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Nov 23, 2009 6:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

But Neighbours is good precisely because it's bad :)

I haven’t seen it in ages though…totally out of touch!

by Albertina on Nov 23, 2009 6:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's a very British export which many Australians cringe about...

but I’m glad someone has fun dissecting it ;)

"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'

by Seahorse on Nov 23, 2009 6:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You don't need to

If you went to this Melbourne street, it would all come flooding back.

by Drongo on Nov 23, 2009 8:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I was a Emmerdale fan

And I’m not ashamed.

Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

by TheFigurehead on Nov 23, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

think that's probably protesting too much

myself…

by civetta on Nov 23, 2009 4:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm not

I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!

Staring at the swim team gets you killed by a gang of dancing ninja men who know how to twirl.

by TheFigurehead on Nov 24, 2009 12:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Two more of my cents.

I think this is going to happen soon. Sky is desperate for Wiggins so the money is going to be there. Garmin will still have a decent Tour team without Wiggins and when 2010 is over Brad would be gone after another near podium finish and Garmin won’t have that bag of cash to invest in their future. The reason for the wait was obviously to make sure Contador was not an option. Now this set of circumstances and the finances that go with them probably just need final approval from sponsors and lawyers. The only thing that is missing is Sminer’s undercover reporting from the BBQ like he did with Hincapie last summer.
There I just had to say that just in case it really does happen and then I can say, ‘Told you so’.

"Drawing on my fine command of language I said nothing."- Groucho

by Mark Frank on Nov 23, 2009 4:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Garmin would still be strong without Wiggins

I think Vande Velde, when not hurt, can climb at least as good as Wiggins, probably a little better. However, Wiggins balances that out in the TT so they’re both close to the same strength I think. Either way, I look forward to Vande Velde hitting it big time in 2010.

by dansel on Nov 23, 2009 10:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs