'Bradley Wiggins stunned that Chris Froome ignored tactics'

 
Standard Sport12 September 2013

Sir Bradley Wiggins felt Chris Froome “stabbed him in the back” at last year’s Tour de France, according to former Team Sky general manager Sean Yates.

Wiggins became Britain’s first Tour winner in 2012 before Froome rode to victory this year.

He was Team Sky’s leader in 2012 but Froome’s unplanned attack two and a half miles from the finish of stage 11 prompted Wiggins to send Yates a text which, according to Yates, said: “I think it would be better for everyone if I went home.”

Yates, in an extract from his new book carried in The Times, said: “He (Wiggins) was upset and felt like Froomey had stabbed him in the back after the discussion we’d had before the stage (where it had been agreed Froome would attack only in the last 500 metres).

“He couldn’t understand why he’d gone back on the agreement when everything was going so well.”

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