Bradley Wiggins held back Tour de France bonus payments from Chris Froome for 14 months Froome, who succeeded Wiggins as winner of the yellow jersey in 2013, did not receive a share of the 2012 champion's £1 million bonus payment from Team Sky, according to passages in David Walsh's new book, Inside Team Sky, as reported in The Times. While the discussion of bonuses remains largely within the team, some riders reportedly received €30,000. The 12 months between Wiggins' and Froome's victories were defined by the power struggle for the leadership of Team Sky at this year's Tour de France, a battle that ended only when Wiggins was forced to withdraw from the race through injury after pulling out of the Giro d'Italia. In an extract from Inside Team Sky, Brailsford discussed his "goal harmony" strategy for ensuring that Wiggins would ride in support of Froome in the 2013 race. Banking on Wiggins' professionalism, he expected the defending champion to agree in principle to serve as Froome's domestique. "Then I would say, 'OK, if you don't follow team orders we will agree to fine you three or four months' wages,'" Brailsford told Walsh. This will be a significant amount of money, maybe as much as a few hundred thousand, and I believed it would concentrate Brad's mind. I was then going to turn to Chris and say: 'Right, Chris, if Brad goes against team orders, I'm going to give you that money.' The meeting never took place, and the matter of the bonus money was not addressed until the World Championships in Florence, where the British road race team anchored by Froome, and featuring Wiggins, retired in ignominy. "That was a matter for Bradley and Chris and it is now sorted," Bralisford said of the bonus payment, although Froome's manager and fiancée Michelle Cound believes issues between the pair are far from resolved. "I don't believe Brad ever intended to pay Chris the bonus," she told The Times. I think the reason he did is because he knew it was coming out in the book. Brad paying Chris really doesn't mean that much. It's about a lot more than the sum of money.