Bradley Wiggins says he is likely to defend his Tour de France title after all next year despite previously nominating the Giro d’Italia as his main objective for 2013.

The 32-year-old Olympics time-trial gold medallist became the Tour’s first British winner last July, with Team Sky colleague Chris Froome second.

At October’s launch of next summer’s 100th Tour Wiggins intimated May’s Tour of Italy would be his priority, leaving the way clear for Froome to lead Sky’s Tour assault.

But yesterday Wiggins told BBC Radio Five: “I don’t know what the situation is in terms of leadership, as it stands I’m probably going to try and win a second Tour de France.

“I don’t know, maybe we’ll have two leaders, which is more than likely I guess. How that’s going to work with the team I don’t know, that’s more (Team Sky general manager) Dave Brailsford’s problem to worry about.”

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