A team in a position to protect the title!
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– Tour de France ™ (@LeTour) 27 August 2020
This was noted as mind games in some sectors when Ineos entered what could be a transition period, moving away from Froome and Thomas to concentrate on Bernal’s youth, as well as Richard Carapaz, 27, and Pavel Sivakov, 23.
But Brailsford insisted he had complete confidence in his here and now.
“While it’s been fantastic and for the rest of the season we’ll focus on Chris and Geraint, for now, everything is directed here and I’m very, very confident in the team we have here.” “he said.
“We’ve won this race more than any other team here, we have drivers in this race with more delight and they’ve won more Grand Laps than any other team in this race.
“Our collective wisdom on how to win the Tour de France is greater than the others, so we are very, very confident.”
The Tour will begin in opposition to a background of emerging cases of coronavirus in France with Nice, the Grand Départ, on red alert on Thursday.
Brailsford said the game was a “key element” to get back to normal, but admitted that there may be no guarantee that the occasion will arrive in Paris on September 20.
“Everyone needs the opportunity to make it happen,” he said. “But also, to adopt a mature and fair common sense approach, if it becomes a point where it poses too much threat to runners, groups and society at large, other people will also have to take this into account.”