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Team Sky fight to sign Wiggins

Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Nov 05, 2009

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• British cycling team delays naming final roster
• Wiggins said to be keen to join Team Sky

Team Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team.

With 19 riders signed up for the new British team, it had been hoped that the remaining seven, including Wiggins who is under contract for 2010, would be announced by the end of this week.

However, it is proving a complicated process, one that has reportedly seen a Team Sky delegation travel to New York this week to meet Garmin's manager, Jonathan Vaughters, and the team's lawyers. Team Sky refused to comment on that rumour, though they did confirm that the announcement of the final seven names would not be coming today tomorrow. The first team get-together is in Manchester on 23 November. The full line-up will be known by then.

Wiggins, it is understood, is keen to move to the team being built by Dave Brailsford and, in Sky colours, challenge for a place on the Tour de France podium next year. Bu

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