WIGGINS AND CAVENDISH FACE 'PLAN B' AFTER GIRO SNUB

Bradley Wiggins Bob Stapleton

Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish had planned to use the Giro d?Italia as a key part of their preparation for the Olympic Games.

Team High Road?s exclusion from the Italian grand tour looks to have thrown a spanner in the works, but Great Britain?s performance director Dave Brailsford is not panicking.

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Sports journalist Lionel Birnie has written professionally for Sunday Times, Procycling and of course Cycling Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast. His first experience covering the Tour de France came in 1999, and he has presented The Cycling Podcast with Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe since 2013. He founded Peloton Publishing in 2010 and has ghostwritten and published the autobiography of Sean Kelly, as well as a number of other sports icons.