Wiggins hopes to hold on to Roubaix favourites

Sir Bradley Wiggins hopes to stay with the leaders until the final phase of Paris-Roubaix. Only then will he start to think about how he could win

Bradley Wiggins in the 2014 Tour of Flanders

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Bradley Wiggins' first challenge in this Sunday's Paris-Roubaix will be riding alongside the favourites. If he makes that first step, only then can he think about winning.

"To be honest, it'd be nice to be in their company in the final," Wiggins said ahead of Scheldeprijs today. "That's going to be my biggest challenge, to be in a position to be with those guys. That alone will be quite something. Thoughts of how to beat them haven't even entered my mind because it'll be a big honour just to be with those guys in that position."

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.