Wiggins, Cavendish lead Sky bid for Tour glory

Bradley Wiggins' support squad for the Tour de France was confirmed on Thursday, with Team Sky relying largely on the riders who have helped the Londoner to an unprecedented series of results this season. Joining Wiggins, who has won the Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and the Criterium du Dauphine stage races this year to establish himself as a leading contender for the yellow jersey, will be world champion Mark Cavendish, winner of 20 stages in the last four Tours. Team Sky's selection, which includes a third Briton in Chris Froome, suggests Wiggins' bid to become the first British winner of the Tour takes priority over Cavendish's defence of the points classification's green jersey. Also named in the nine-man squad for the 99th edition of the Tour are Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen, winner of Team Sky's first Tour stages in 2011, Germany's Christian Knees, Australian duo Richie Porte and Michael Rogers, Kanstantsin Siutsou of Belarus and Austrian Bernhard Eisel. Team Sky Bradley Wiggins (GBR), Mark Cavendish (GBR), Chris Froome (GBR), Michael Rogers (AUS), Richie Porte (AUS), Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR), Bernhard Eisel (AUT), Kanstantsin Siutsou (BLR), Chrstian Knnes (GER).