"He also had the help of British Cycling which, well, is not allowed," said Collins. "It was a bit strange to see British Cycling, like Shane Sutton, getting so involved last night when he doesn't work for Team Wiggins, I'm not sure how that's allowed."
I'm not sure how it isn't "allowed"? Sounds a bit whiney to me!
I am actually starting to come around to liking Dowsett. He seemed to grate for whatever reason a bit in the UK setups but more recently he is coming across more humble- of course this is 90% PR training probably but he really comes across like someone who is very confident in his own abilities and is happy to let his riding do the talking.
Seems like this was as much a fact-finding mission as it was a PR one.
Get all the data from this and, as mentioned previously, go again after Rio.
I don't believe Wiggins would be mentally up for this after the pressure of this Hour, then Rio. I get the impression the location and PR was needed to make it viable rather than as a first go to test the waters. He seems to work best with some down time between big projects and I think it would be too much (for anyone really!) to mentally and physically commit to all these things in a row.
