Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins admits he's been struggling at Giro with chest infection

Should have tried Lemsip Max Strength today!

Maybe it's not a head cold but a cold head, due to lack of hair and sideburns

Im not a doctor but.......

you can see it on Wiggins face when he is climbing. His mouth is open and he is breathing through his mouth. Just like you do when you have got a cold.
As another correspondent said - when ever i have a cold it takes me about a week to recover on the bike never mind ride whilst ive got one.

Todays weather won't help.

Good point. Most clubs are packed with couldawouldashouldas if only the: knee, back, shoulder, chest infection, ill fitted bottom bracket had allowed them to spring forward and claim the victory so rightfully theirs... You get their excuses all the way home sometimes.

I do hope it's genuine and Sky suddenly leap back into action as Stumpy suggests. It's already a cracking Giro.

Strange that everyone is just taking his word for it that he's ill. This is hardly a team adverse to mind games

I mentioned this a couple of days ago on another article. I personally believe that when the team are fully fit they will tank it up the hills and Astana will go pop massively.

With Henao just that little bit off the lead he will go first, followed by Uran and if fit enough Wiggins will go. Nibali will have to chase down all 3, not mentioning the other GC boys who will no doubt want to have a go as well.

I like Nibali as a rider but even if he is in the best form he cant live with constantly going after gc boys.

As for Evans, i think he will drop like a stone when the fun starts.

Head cold my a***. It's the Giro. They've been nobbled.

Nibali's had Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes sneaking into Team Sky's rooms in the middle of the night to crank open the windows and waiters sneezing over their porridge.

If I were SKY, I would let Uran take this one

Agree with Lucas, they would have been under siege if word had gotten out on the climbs.

To me it's seemed fairly obvious that something was wrong and I suspected illness, since the TTT. Sorry to say that unless Nibbles has a bad day or two Brad is very unlikely to win. Even then Evans is 90ish seconds ahead and he too seems in top form. Only chance I can see is Uran and Wiggo do the old "one two" and see which one comes out on top a La Sastre's tour win. He won cos the opposition were too busy marking Frank S in yellow.

Even so both Sky riders have got to reduce the deficit significantly for the leaders to really worry for that tactic to work.

IMHO of course.

I think there is an amphetamine in Lemsip which makes you feel better emphanephadrine (or something). However, a little known fact is that caffeine is the most performance enhancing Amphetamine, but is not actually banned (due to its easy availability and limited unhealthy side effects).

Its all in the plan, If they had of announced this 2 days ago he would have lost more than 49secs on that climb cause Nibili would have planned to bury him. Basically Uran was distraction and a chance to claw back time for him while Wiggo does the best he can. Then announce the illness just before a sprinters stage. Wiggo will be on the mend tomorrow and the GC contenders will be frustrated they missed the opportunity to distance themselves. This is going to go to the wire boys and girls...

Anyone else wish they could ride that well with a chest infection? last time I had one walking up stairs was hard enough. Hell, standing up left me gasping and needing a sit down.

Very interesting to see where Sky go with this.

Cataldo had the same thing, a couple of days of taking it a little easier and he's back up the front helping Wiggo.

Brad doesn't have that luxury unless he wants to DS for Uran and give up the fight.

I really hope he gives it 110% or give Uran a shot, because I don't want to see Uran lose out because of Wiggo, if he's not fit to fight for the Pink, be the bigger man, say so and let Uran have a chance

I reckon he'll be caning the Lemsips and next week, when he is feeling better, will come out and smash it!