Wiggins in the Pink

9th May 2010

Bradley Wiggins took his first ever leader's jersey in a Grand Tour by winning the opening time trial in the Giro d'Italia.

Wiggins in the Pink

Photo Credit : Alessandro Trovati/AP - Guardian.co.uk

Wiggins won on a technical, tramline-dotted streets of Amsterdam. This was the perfect start for Team Sky in their debut Grand Tour. The Giro favourite, Cadel Evans, was third, two seconds slower than Wiggo.

"It was hard," said Wiggins, who wore the all-white British national time-trial champion's skinsuit. "But I just did my own race and was oblivious to anyone else. I was oblivious to anyone on the course, I was in my own world. That's what I always do in time trials. If I crashed, I crashed. I wasn't going to touch my brakes."

Wiggins reckons it was his ambition to take and maybe hold the pink jersey in the early stages of the Giro, but then back off in the final week - so that he could be in the best form possible for the Tour de France.

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