Editorial: How can Sky accommodate Wiggins and Cavendish at the Tour de France?

Now that we all know who Mark Cavendish will be riding for next season, it seems – if Twitter and forums are anything to go by – that the next question that many bike fans want answered is how Team Sky might go about accommodating Bradley Wiggins’ aspirations for the Tour’s yellow jersey with Cavendish’s likely goal of defending his points title at the same race.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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