Wiggins bails on P-N to attend funeral
- By VeloNews.com
- Published Mar. 11, 2009
- Updated Mar. 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM UTC
Britain’s Olympic gold medalist Bradley Wiggins (Garmin-Slipstream) pulled out of Paris-Nice on Wednesday to attend the funeral of his wife’s grandmother, team sports director Lionel Marie said.
Wiggins scratched from the 173.5km stage from Vichy to St Etienne after placing second in the opening time trial only to lose 11 minutes on the leaders in Tuesday’s third stage.
FILED UNDER: Road TAGS: Paris-Nice