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"I really want that fifth Olympic gold. So working back from that I'll stay with Team Sky - hopefully - and try to win something like Paris-Roubaix, which is a completely different challenge to the Tour de France."

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BRADLEY WIGGINS

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12.11.2014 @ 18:38 Posted by Emil Axelgaard

Bradley Wiggins has made a fifth Olympic gold medal ath the 2016 Olympics in Rip his biggest goal and for this he wants to reach an agreement with Team Sky to create a development team. The ambitions are long-term as he wants a sustainable project for at least team years with the goal of finishing "the next Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy". The 2012 Tour de France winner and 2014 world time trial champion only has one remaining goal on the road: to try to win Paris-Roubaix.

 

24-year-old Bradley Wiggins wants to create his own team in order to win gold in the team pursuit at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The Brit won gold in the individual pursuit in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008, in the team pursuit in Beijing in 2008 and in the time trial in London in 2012.

 

Wiggins spoke about his future at the Marketing Festival in Wapping and revealed that he is still in negotiations with Team Sky about his contract for next year but his main intention is to create a development team.

 

"We're in negotiations with Sky at the moment. Obviously I have come off the back of winning the world [time trial] championship six weeks ago. That was sort of the final nail in the road coffin as it were,” the Daily Telegraph report Wiggins as saying. "I really want that fifth Olympic gold. So working back from that I'll stay with Team Sky - hopefully - and try to win something like Paris-Roubaix, which is a completely different challenge to the Tour de France."

 

Andy Tennant, Mark Christian and Steven Burke are likely to be some of the riders in his new team.

 

"Next year I would love to have my own team, which we are in process of setting up. It will basically be the guys I am going to try to win that gold medal with. And that team will facilitate a programme, and a training programme, which will basically give us the best possible opportunity of winning that gold medal,” Wiggins said.

 

Wiggins looks beyond 2016.

 

“Long-term, post-Rio, obviously the word legacy gets thrown around a lot in the wake of the Olympics but I'd love to find the next Bradley Wiggins or Chris Hoy. That's something I would really like to dedicate myself to for the next 10 years. That is kind of what the start of this team is about; it’s that grassroots, the future of the sport and finding the next champion," he said.

 

Wiggins had his best season on the road in the 2012 when he won Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie, the Criterium du Dauphine, the Tour de France and the time trial in London. In 2014, he didn't do a grand tour but won the Tour of California, his national time trial championships, was third in the Tour of Britain and beat Tony Martin in Ponferrada to take his first time trial Worlds title after two silver medals. In April he was 9th in Paris-Roubaix.

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