Eight riders have reportedly signed on for Team Wiggins, the track-centric UCI Continental development squad to be captained by Sir 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins following his spring road campaign with Team Sky. The team is being built around dev🏅eloping a squad for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio, where Wiggins is expected to lead the British pursuit team in thei▨r quest for gold.

According to Cycling Weekly, Steven Burke is the only member of th🧸e 2012 Olympic gold medal winning pursuit team to join Team Wiggins, with Commonwealth Games silver medalist Andrew Tennant as the two most experienced riders in the team. Welshman Owain Doull and Mark Christian, who won the Madison in the London World Cup this month, are also in the team.

The team appears to be incorporating talent from other disciplines as well, with young mountain bikers Iain Paton and Michael Thompson named to the squad. Road riders Jon Dibben, who beat Doull to win the time trial stage in the Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux this year, and Daniel Patten, who 🐠raced in 2013 with Team Smartstop, round out the team.

Wiggins, who will end his road career with Team Sky after the Spring Classics and, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:possibly, the Giro d'Italia, will be able to officially switch to the team as a rider during the UCI transfer window in𓆉 June.

The 2012 Tour de France champion announced last year he would 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:wind down his road career in favour of a run at the Rio Olympic Games. News of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:development squad came in September, befor🐬e Wiggins claimed the World Championship title in the time trial i꧅n Ponferrada.

In October, Wiggins was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:said to be close to making an announcement about Team Wiggins, but nothing official hasꦬ come out as of ♕yet.

Cycling Weekly links Wiggins' manager Robert Dod💜ds, rider agent Andrew McQuaid and director Simon Cope to the team as part of its management struc꧂ture, with sponsors Pinarello, Rapha and Sky.