LISTEN: Bradley Wiggins Chats To Us Ahead Of Glasgow 2014
Sir Bradley Wiggins has shelved plans to compete in multiple events at the Commonwealth Games and will focus instead on the team pursuit.
Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner who was controversially left out by Team Sky this year, had initially intended to race on the road and the track in Glasgow, with as many as four events open to him.
But having returned to the velodrome with an eye on the Rio 2016 Olympics he quickly resolved to focus on the four-man Olympic event and will not now contest the time-trial, road race or individual pursuit.
Our reporter Connor Gillies has been chatting to him
The initial thing, having been away for so long, was whether I could still do it. Straight away the initial signs were really good and since then I've just been focusing on the team pursuit,'' he said.
I dropped everything else. The plan was to come in and do pretty much most of the events.
With hindsight, I thought just focus on the Olympic event rather than try to be too greedy.
It's first up as well which is a good thing. So all the training's been geared up to the team pursuit and trying to break back into that.
It's the only Olympic event really that's available to me now, because the individual pursuit has gone.
I thought I'd put all my eggs into the one I'm going to tryand do for the next two years.''
Wiggins explained he had never seriously entertained the idea of combining track and road events having thrown himself firmly into training at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester.
I never was going to do the road race,'' he said.
I was just down for the time trial had I gone to the Tour de France, but the training for the last four to five weeks has been so concentrated on the track and I don't think I could have done much on the roads.
It's one of those ones. It's one or the other, don't underestimate the event and try to do everything or be greedy and thinking you could win everything.''