Tour focus for Wiggins

Bradley Wiggins insists his main focus for next year is the Tour de France.

Bradley Wiggins has insisted his main focus for next year is the Tour de France - even if it stops him winning more Olympic medals. The 31-year-old has raced to Olympic gold three times on the track, once in the team pursuit and twice in the individual pursuit, but he is now concentrating on winning the Tour de France. The Team Sky rider was forced to retire from this year's race with a broken collarbone on the seventh stage but finished fourth in 2009 and is desperate to claim an overall victory. "As big as the Olympics are, being in London, it's kind of 'been there, done that'," Wiggins told BBC Sport. "It would be crazy to not do the Tour but it will jeopardise the time trial." Next year, the Tour de France finishes on Sunday 22 July with the Olympic time trial race scheduled for Wednesday 1 August. The team pursuit starts the following day in the velodrome but the individual pursuit, where Wiggins has excelled, will not be raced in London. But the rider is yet to decide if he will compete on the track or the road at the London Games after winning silver in the time trial at the Road World Championships in Copenhagen this week. "I'm getting pulled left and right from a lot of different areas," he said. "The team pursuit want me, the road want me, Team Sky want me on the Tour. But my saving grace is that I've got one boss who is Dave Brailsford so I think that's also a nice position to be in. "It's 100% the Tour and everything training towards it but then it's deciding what I do after, whether I go straight to the time trial and do the team pursuit or I just leave the time trial and aim for the pursuit. "I've certainly got a chance to get a medal in London in the time trial but we've also got a strong chance of winning gold in the team pursuit."