Bradley Wiggins to ride track at Commonwealth Games as Sky confirms he won’t ride Tour

1 British rider in the supposedly British Team Sky for the biggest race of the year which also happens to start in Britain (Froome discounted as clearly the only way to could have ever turned pro is to race under a British license so teams like Sky would want him). Slightly annoying but I'll still be cheering on Team Sky and Adam Yates of Orica GreenEDGE.

It was a predictable call and hard to see it being done any other way given the management philosophy of Team Sky. As to who to support, will be great if I see Cav in yellow when I'm working on stage 2.

We all fully expected this, so why am I still disappointed to read this official news ?

Seems a little more galling now Sir Brad has won the nationals !

No Ben Swift in a race where Stage 2 finishes down the road from his home town

Brad placed a rare picture on Instagram this morning eating a MacDonalds (!!) on his way home from winning yesterdays TT Nationals. Speaks volumes with the TDF just a week away (I'm not on the SKY Train so here's two fingers). Is it time for Brad to move on? If Richie Porte moves at the end of this year who have Sky left other than Froome as a GC contender for 2015/16? I'm not interested in Froome I'd rather see an open race with other teams attacking Sky which didn't happen last year (hey Movistar!)

Surely Wiggins must leave Sky now?

Wonder if there will be a vocal 'back lash' against Sky amongst roadside supporters?

Pleased Sir Wiggo will be riding for England, they must be over the moon to have him on-board. He's probably better doing that and being allowed to win than playing second to Froome anyway. Best of luck to them both, hope to see them head to head at the tour next year though.

You've only got to go to the McDonalds outside the Manchester velodrome after a World Cup series meet to see that a BigMac and milkshake must be the ultimate recovery meal.

Sad news for UK cycling, we have a "British team" which only has a Welshman in it!! Still shocked Scott Thwaites was not included in Endura.

The worst news is we could have a convicted doper as winner of TdF in Contador.

Clearly internal politics and not upsetting the leader (or his GF) rather than pure performance - can't see what some of the riders included bring over and above what Wiggo could have brought. Shame he's not there as he's been great at bringing cycling to the UK - who can forget The Sun's 'Wiggo Chops' . Now going to have to explain to the plebs in the office why Wiggo isn't riding the Tour.

After his performance in the Tour de Suisse i'm not surprised (although he did crash, i'll give him that) but i think he was told prior to that race to be honest.

Still a cracking team and one that, on paper, looks strong enough to put Froome up there again.

They put what they thought was the best team, like them/him or not but Sky/DB know far far more about team selections than anyone here.

Nationality doesn't mean you get a spot, coming from near a stage start/finish doesn't get you in and so on.
All that does it your performance and been able to ride 110% for your team leader, they didn't want to risk the internal balance, be it that BW was going to rock the boat, or CF wasn't wanting him.

F**k team sky, like it or not leaving Brad out in favour of an apparent stedhead drug (kind of) cheet won't help the brand. I hope he is back at next years Tour and kicks Froome in to touch. I think sky's lack of loyalty and not having a British leader is sad

Wiggo would have made a useful domestique, so it's a shame he's not on the squad. I can't see him being a grand tour contender any more though, unless there's 5 stages of individual time trial.

1) How long will brailsford last if he leaves out Brad and Froome doesn't win?
2) what if Brad decides to race for Aus at the Commies....to stick it to the man!
3) What if Brad only wanted to the tour if he was given a stab at GC if strong enough.

All this,band more in this weeks episode of SOAP.

Grand tours are 4 weeks of being with the same 9 people day in day out .If there is simmering bad feeling to begin with it will make the day to day running of the squad extremely difficult . Dave Brailsford had a difficult decision to make and I think he made the correct call. Bradley Wiggins is and will always be a hero, the 1st British winner of the greatest bike race ever but the future is Froome and as team leader and GC rider he must have an input into his team set-up , the riders he trusts, the riders he trained with in Tenerife (Brad was in mallorca) and the best riders available . It is possible Froome can win several more tours and he is dedicated to the road unlike Wiggins. I personally dont think SKY will have it all their own way in this years tour as Contador and the SaxoBank team are looking very strong . I think we will see exactly what Froome,Porte,Geraint Thomas, Mikel Nieve, Bernhard Eisel, Vasil Kiryienka, David López, Danny Pate and Xabier Zandio are all made of against Alberto Contador ,Rogers, Roche, Kreuziger and company. Contador looked ominously strong in the criterium de dauphine

Oh come on folks, Wiggo ruled himself out weeks ago. He made it clear that he wasn't going to ride the tour well before Sky had started their selection process.

As a close confidant of Brad and someone who's wisdom he often calls on i would advise him to ditch Sky as soon as he can.
They are funded by a despicable human being and his son (who is possibly going to face charges over the hacking thing) and many other teams have got wise to Sky's racing tactics and Brailsford et al can only make so many marginal gains before pure talent (of which there is lots coming through in other teams) will prevail.
We are at the point where Sky can no longer dominate and their brief moment in the sun is coming to an end.
Bradley is still a world class bike rider and he deserves better.

All these comments about nationality are rubbish, Froome is as British as Wiggins, both were born outside UK, but have British families. Wiggins is just more British in his jack the lad ways. Cycling is not like Football in terms of only playing for your national country.