Drive set to divide

FORMER Team Sky rider Mikel Landa says the harmony between Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas won’t last, with “ego and ambition” certain to divide the teammates in the Tour de France’s final week.

Thomas’s 1min 39sec lead over second-placed Froome after 15 stages has been one of the shocks of the race but both riders have scoffed at suggestions infighting is inevitable.

However, Landa, who spent two years with the British squad before moving to Movistar this season, said there was too much on the line. “It is clear that both of them have a lot of ambition,” he said.