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Bradley Wiggins Fight For PinkVideo: Bradley Wiggins explains why he'd "love to win the Giro"
While all the talk over the past 24 hours or so has been about his intentions for the Tour de France and relationship with Chris Froome, Sir Bradley Wiggins has the small matter of the Giro d'Italia to deal with first - the Team Sky rider and Astana's Vincenzo Nibali are expected to be the main challengers for the maglia rosa, although there are a number of other riders who'll be looking to lay claim to it.
In this video from Team Sky clothing supplier Rapha, Wiggins talks about how he fuelled his passion for cycling as a teen by picking up magazines on eBay - given he's 33 now, and eBay was founded in 1995 but adopted its present name two years later, that makes him an impressively early adopter if our maths are correct - and also gives his thoughts about the Giro.
"I'd love to win the Tour of Italy and add that to the Tour de France," he says. "It's the other race that inspires me the most, it's an historical race and so many greats have won it. It's probably more romantic than the Tour, really, in cycling history.
"I think mainstream, everyone's 'the Tour de France,' but in cycling terms the Giro is probably more of a romantic race, I suppose, everyone loves watching it. So I would love to try and win that."
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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'Fight for Pink' ? I seem to remember that Carrie Fisher had a successful book called 'Kissing the Pink'. But I don't think she was referring to jerseys.
If Sky mean the singer Pink I would have thought she could fight her own battles. She could certainly knock Sir Brad over in his near starved condition.
Pay attention! He says that his mum threw away all of his old cycling magazines from the early 1990s, and that he now buys old copies on eBay to replace them.
Bloody hell @tony... your right, Its Wiggo!
Definite early signs that Wiggins is turning in to cycling's version of Ron Manager. Give him a few years…
Yup, also noticed about the ebay statement. Presumably he means he bought "old" copies of magazines from the early 1990's - not that he bought magazines on ebay in the early 1990's. So he would have purchased them from 1995/6/7 onwards approx.