Cycling: Wiggins sets sights on Tour de France

Wiggins suffered a disastrous 2013 when he pulled out of the Giro d’Italia due to illness and then missed the defence of his Tour title with injury.

He also had to watch as Froome succeeded him as Tour champion and firmly established himself as the Team Sky leader.

Wiggins, though, is determined to earn his place alongside Froome on the French roads in July.

“I will do everything in my power to try and be there,” said Wiggins. “However, as [British Cycling coach] Shane Sutton said, it is Chris’s team and he will have a big say in who he puts around him and who he is confident having in front of him in the mountains. So let’s see what happens.

“For now, my job is to continue doing what I’m doing and warrant a Tour place.”