• Groupama–FDJ principal says Thibaut Pinot can recover
Dave Brailsford’s rest-day habit of provoking the French resurfaced again as the Tour de France took a 24-hour pause in Albi, a day after the home hero Thibaut Pinot had been unceremoniously worked over by Geraint Thomas and his Ineos teammates in gusting crosswinds.
While Pinot raged against his bad luck at his own team’s media conference, after an opening phase of the Tour in which he had hardly put a foot wrong, Brailsford appeared to relish the Frenchman’s predicament when he spoke to the media. “We are here to race,” the Ineos team principal said. “I live and breathe and think all day about sticking the knife in and, when you get the chance, twisting it.”
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Albi
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/16/dave-brailsford-team-ineos-geraint-thomas-tour-de-france-cycling under the title “Dave Brailsford keen to ‘twist knife’ into Team Ineos’s Tour rivals”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
