Because with three stages left before the Champs-Elysees finale, Wiggins needs to just hang on and avoid crashing to become Britain's first champion of bicyling's premier race. All that was left for Wiggins to do was let his superior Team Sky teammates, a collection of Austrian, Australian, Belarussian, British, German and Norwegian racers, drive such a high pace in the mountains that attacks by other teams became nearly impossible. Since the start in Liege, Wiggins and team boss Dave Brailsford have repeated that they were taking the race day by day, and that they wouldn't start thinking about Paris until the Eifel Tower was in sight. [...] all that stands between him and the top of a podium on the Champs-Elysees is Friday's hilly 137-mile stage ? in France's southwest that offers no major difficulty ? and Saturday's final time trial, the discipline Wiggins masters so well he bested four-time World Champion Fabian Cancellara by nearly a minute in the race's first long time trial on July 9.
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