Wiggins says Sky may have two leaders at 2013 Tour de France

I am sure that having Froome in front of him breaking the wind, and (metaphorically) having Froome breathing down his neck both helped to drive Wiggins on to victory in the last tour. It was a perfect combination of cooperation and competition, but I feel it worked because Wiggins was the only captain, and not necessarily because Wiggins was the captain.

This will make the Tour even better. Two riders for the same team who will be working together but also want to win themselves. Come on Bradley!

Wiggins deserves another shot at the TDF he should be the main leader of the Sky Team.

I think its a good way to ensure the competition have to make guesses. By openly stating "I'm doing this and he's doing that", the competition have been given plenty time to plan. Now they have to build in some guesses, are we racing Froome or Wiggins or both?

This has nothing whatsoever to do with whose name will be first on the teamsheet.

Sunday is SPOTY. Wiggins has been off the front pages ever since he got home from hospital and got back on the bike. This new story is nothing more and nothing less than a ploy to get him back into the public (including the cycling public)'s consciousness ahead of Sunday night's vote.

I see no reason why Team Sky can't take Wiggo and Froomie to TDF, last year with cav and his mate bernie plus the injury to sivtsov, wiggo and froome only working in a final kms of mountains, TT and of course wiggo's lead out, they had a lot of mileage on only a few men.

if you have wiggo and froome as 1 and 2 rest of riders could be, porte, thomas, EBH, stannard, uran, henao (always come together) cataldo/kiriyenka

this is clearly a dream team and they'll spread these riders across the season for different goals, but look at that squad if they were to focus on GC

Either it's an elaborate publicity hype for the new kit launch or Wiggins landed on his head too hard last month.

His chances to win the TDF twice were 2011 and 2012. I had a lot of respect for his decision to repay the favour and help Froome win in 2013 and try for the Giro himself.

Now Brad's gone all Badger and thinks he can do it once more with an resentful team sitting on his wheel? No way.

If Contador can't pull off both tours in one year on the Spanish steak diet - Wiggins certainly can't on power meters and Tenerife training. You need a team around you who believe in you. I think the Sky riders might believe it's Froome's time to shine.

Worse case scenario? We'll have another tedious summer of Froome v Wiggins cat fights all over Twitter as they slug it out - and when the dust more likely than not both will come away empty handed.

I hope Uncle Fester is bending Bradley's ear right now. I would be.

+1 for 'Slaying the Badger'. Just finished reading it and I highly recommend it. While times change and personalities are different, two into one is always a difficult equation.

Wiggo was strong in 2011 then crashed out. He has to be there to compete. Two heads... etc. First to crack on the mountain plays backup.

Anyway we need both of them in case Schumacher takes one of them out at the hairpin. Oh, wait... wrong forum.

I think he knows deep down that Froome is the obvious choice as number 1 for the TdF due to the course but we will have to see how their fitness is and who is in form before any definitive answer can be given about team leader.

To be honest i think the pair of them acting together with the team would destroy all the rest of the GC candidates including Contador and J-Rod as this years TdF proved.

'Multiple TDF wins are over-rated.' ????

I think Wiigins should go full-bore to win the Giro and support Froome in the Tour. I think it is more impressive to win different Grand Tours and a couple of classics say, than say 2 or 3 TDF. If Wig won the giro and vuelta then something like Paris Roubaix his palmares would be very special. Multiple TDF wins are over-rated.

'its the honorable thing after he laid out for brad last year.'

Nothing of the sort. Wiggins is team leader and Froome isn't.

Perhaps they think that they can be so far ahead of the rest that they can fight it out between them? That's what happened in '86 and it made for a great race.
Just read Wiggo's book and the chapter about Froome in the TDF is entitled 'Under Attack'; it makes it pretty clear that Froome is a bit naive as regards race tactics and isn't great at following team orders.
It could be interesting....

This feels a bit like de ja vu. Were we all not having similar discussion last year about Cav and Brad going for 2 jerseys in the TDF?
When did it last happen?
Will it cause chaos in the team etc?
Will it not take the focus off somewhere else?
Big fan of team sky e.t.c but does feel a bit "soap opera" sometimes

Lets be honest - Wiggo is going to the TDF and he will go as team leader which for me is the correct deicion.

Yes its going to put Chris's nose out of joint but bottom line is Wiggo is the tour champion.

They will either tell Chris its a joint leadership and lets see how it goes day by day on the road.

For me it should be Chris going for the Giro - he is more likely to win that than the Vuelta. Once he gets a grand tour win under his belt then he can have a crack at winning TDF will full support of team.

If he doesnt like it he will have to leave Sky and there are hardly any teams that could afford him.

Roche and Visentini were great pals too, so I've heard

That worked well for Astana in 2009 (or are we not allowed to mention the A-word? Well, any of the A-words)

It will be interesting to see who gets the number one on their back as team leader....OR Does Wiggo get it automatically by being this next year?

Just makes the team look a bit chaotic and not all agreed about the goals. Besides, if Brad goes for the Giro, is he going to feel that great in July?

I'd like nothing more than to see bradly work for froome in the 2013 tour, I think the route suits froome better so not only does it seem like the right tactic its the honorable thing after he laid out for brad last year.

That quote taken on its own doesn't necessarily mean that Froome won't be leader this year- Wiggins could just be talking about winning a 2nd sometime in the future. And as the article says, it'd be a bit odd for Wiggins to go against pretty much everything that's come out of Sky about 2013 at this point.

Is there a precedence of this having taken place in previous tours with other teams? i.e going into the tour with two team leaders