Loss of Sir Bradley Wiggins for Tour de France will weaken Team Sky, says British Cycling head coach Shane Sutton Unfortunately you've got two of the best bike riders in the world on the same team and Froomey will be there thinking, 'This is my opportunity, I need to seize on it, and I'm sure he'll do well. Froome goes in as red-hot favourite to win the Tour and possibly the only guy that could have beaten him would have been Bradley. Sir Dave Brailsford, the Team Sky principal and British Cycling performance director, last night said he had no doubt Wiggins would put the setback behind him, and Sutton goes along with that verdict. "It's a tough period for him right now but I'm sure he'll bounce back," Sutton said. It's one of the toughest sports in the world and no doubt the toughest sporting event in the world, and if you're not 100 per cent on your game you've got to be honest with yourself and look in the mirror and make that decision. He's done that, and to reiterate what Dave said last night I'm pretty sure that Brad will bounce back. Sutton believes he should target the rainbow jersey, on offer to winners at September's World Championships in Toscana. He added: "There are other goals out there for him before the end of the season and one that he's never achieved is the rainbow jersey in the individual time trial which he won so convincingly in London (at the Olympics), and I'd like to think he'd put his mind to that possibly and go on to be world champion at the end of the year." Edited by Lucy Kinder