Cycling: Wiggins reignites war of words

Briton hits out at compatriot Millar before first Sky race in today's Tour of Qatar
By Alasdair Fotheringham, Cycling Correspondent
 

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Bradley Wiggins' long road to the Tour de France and his first race in Sky colours both get under way in the Tour of Qatar today with a war of words with former Garmin-Transitions team-mate David Millar still rumbling on.
 
Tension between the two teams rose during Wiggins' drawn-out transfer from Garmin to Sky, with Millar recently saying that the new British squad were not popular or highly respected in the peloton.
Before setting off for a training ride yesterday, Wiggins responded: "It's easy for Dave to sit down and say that now because a year ago he was ready to come to this team [Sky] and be part of it. That didn't happen for whatever reason, so now he's saying this. All of this came about because I got fourth in the Tour, and I could not have done that without that help from my Garmin team-mates. But there was no way I was not going to be part of a British team either, and someone was always going to get hurt along the line somewhere. It's like a divorce." More