Risky Business
JUST UNDER ONE HUNDRED DAYS. That’s all it took for Sir Dave Brailsford to keep the coffers full at the world’s most moneyed and simultaneously despised team.
On December 12 last year, when Sky announced their withdrawal from the sport, effective the end of season 2019, it didn’t take long for pundits to pen their obituary. “They rewrote the textbook for winning the Tour de France but after six wins in 10 years – seven if everything goes right for them this summer – it’s time to move on, fresh faces, a more level playing field, yada yada yada.”
Except Sir Brailsford wasn’t ready.
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