Wiggins on Dauphine: 'I've come here to race'

Bradley Wiggins in lead, Criterium du Dauphine 2012, stage one

published 4 June 2012

Bradley Wiggins earned himself another leader's jersey today in the Critérium du Dauphiné. This one, at the end of 187km of racing, was stuffed in the back of his team Sky, British Champion jersey when he came to the press conference.

So far, he's been awarded the leader's jersey 12 times this season. It's a burden he thinks about as he aims to win this race and, next month, the Tour de France.

"It's hard not to compete in this race really," Wiggins said today. "You either sit up, in which case you might as well go training at altitude in the mountains. I don't really enjoy training, it's the worst part of being a cyclist, I'd rather come to a bike race, go flat for one hour time trial or a day like today, but then it's inevitable you're in the GC and you get a result. If I didn't do that, I'd have to go do something else on my own with no one watching. It's very difficult to explain to the mass media, unless they've ridden a bike or trained at the endurance level."

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Wiggins on Dauphine: 'I've come here to race'

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