While 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins admits that "it's only sport", the 2012 Tour de France winner also says that the ongoing coronavirus crisis could begin 🌳to affecꦯt riders' livelihoods.

Talking on the first episode of the new season of , Wiggins said that the cancellation and postponement of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:most upcoming professional cycli🎉ng 🐻races was "the least important thing compared to other things in life", but that riders' winter training for their various goals was in danger o😼f being wasted.

"If something like the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France was to go [be canc♛elled] at the expense of the virus, it would be a great shame for the riders considering🐈 the amount of work they have put in," the now-retired rider said.

"This is their livelihoods. We keep saying it's only sport, but, for these guys, with the financial implications for the sponsors and the teams, this c🗹ould be devastating for them."

Wiggins also questioned whether 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Nice, which finished after stage 7 on Saturday, rather than running all the way to🥂 Nice on Sunday, should have been r⭕un at all.

▨"It [coronavirus crisis] has escalated every day, and it got to a point where they had to cancel the last stage of Paris-Nice. It did seem odd that, with everything going on at the moment, with the crisis in Italy, we were going very close to there in Nice with a massive bike race almost celebrating thaꦜt, when it was getting very serious all around us.

"🍸There is no toilet roll anymore, no paracetamol… You see the Premier League [football] is going [postponed], and those thing♏s, and you wonder why Paris-Nice ever went ahead, really, when we'd already lost Tirreno-Adriatico and some of the teams racing."

Wiggins also revealed that he'd recently spoken to his former Team Sky teammate Mark Cavendish, who has this year joined Bahrain McLaren and for whom this sea🍰son was set to be key after🐎 a barren past couple of years, win-wise, due to having had the Epstein-Barr virus.

"I spoke to Cav last week, and he was just about to travel down to Nice to do some trainin♑g down there," said Wiggins. "He'd been training quite hard in preparation for this season, as we know how big of a year this wa꧟s going to be for him, coming back with Bahrain and really wanting to make a point, make a statement.

"It's frustrating from an athletic point of view f🧔or the likes of Cav, because this was a big, big year 💮for him, and of course we all know what his race is – the Tour de France – coming back this year after not making the squad last year.

"So from a personal sportin🌺g aspect for someone like Mark Cavendish, it's going to be a shame if something like this disrupts his opportunity," said Wiggins.