The word within the Great Britain camp is that Bradley Wiggins is flying, and with the UCI Track World Championships set to start on Wednesday and talk of a possible team pursuit world record, the former Tour de France winner could not have found his form at a better time.
As part of the Great Britain men's pursuit team, Wiggins will line up in national kit in London for the first time since the 2012 Olympic Games. So much has happened since those heady days in the capital, when Tour rejoice turned to national triumphalism. There has been the aborted Giro campaign; a time trial world title; a departure from Team Sky; a tilt at Paris-Roubaix that was based upon science and sprinkled with romanticism, and a successful Hour Record. Bradley Wiggins's career was defined by the Tour but it was created on the track.
In many ways Wiggins' quest for another Olympic track title can be seen as a back-to-basics story. After all, it's on the track where Wiggins first began to assemble his collection of world titles and Olympic medals.
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However, the team pursuit that Wiggins once conquered has grown, morphed and improved. And where there was once dominance for Great Britain there is now doubt.
"It has got harder," he tells the press after a training session at the Manchester velodrome.
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