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But Wiggins said that Sky’s refusal to take<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180919182429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2018/09/16/simon-yates-brother-adam-could-now-rival-team-sky-tour-de-france/"> his twin Adam</a> as well as Simon meant that they joined a team prepared to give them more opportunities at a much younger age.</p> <p>"It was sliding doors moment, whether his career would have gone down this path,” Wiggins told Eurosport's The Bradley Wiggins Show. “By nature of the fact that Sky wouldn't take Adam as well in one package, he's ended up finding a great team and won a grand tour at 26.”</p> <p>Wiggins’s career and relationship with Sky ended in controversy after hackers group Fancy Bears <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180919182429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2016/09/19/a-bunch-of-hypocrites-team-sky-attacked-after-sir-bradley-wiggin/">revealed in 2016 that he had taken Therapeutic Use Exemptions for a controversial asthma medication</a> before some of the biggest races of his career, including the 2012 Tour de France.</p> <p>Last February, asked to give advice to up-and-coming star Tom Pidcock, who he had signed up to his new under-23 team, Wiggins replied: "Don't go to Sky... go somewhere else, because they will ruin you.”</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="articleBodyImage section"> <div class="article-body-image component " itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" data-frz-ancestor> <div class="component-content"> <figure> <span class="article-body-image-image-container"> <div class="lazy-image article-body-image-image" style="padding-top:66.68%;" data-js="LazyImage" data-src="/web/20180919182429oe_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=480" data-srcset="/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=480 480w,/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=960 960w,/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=580 580w,/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=1160 1160w,/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=620 620w,/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=1240 1240w" data-sizes="100vw,(min-width: 480px) 480px,(min-width: 730px) 580px,(min-width: 1008px) 620px" data-alt="Simon Yates and twin brother Adam - Simon Yates and twin brother Adam both represent Team Mitchelton-Scott"> <noscript> <img class="responsive article-body-image-image" src="/web/20180919182429im_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/cycling/2018/09/16/TELEMMGLPICT000172324453_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=480" alt="Simon Yates and twin brother Adam - Simon Yates and twin brother Adam both represent Team Mitchelton-Scott"> </noscript> </div> </span> <figcaption> <span itemprop="caption" class="article-body-image-caption">Simon Yates and twin brother Adam both represent Team Mitchelton-Scott</span> <span itemprop="copyrightHolder" class="article-body-image-copyright"> <span class="article-body-image-copyright-label">Credit:</span> Getty Images </span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> </div> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="article-body-text component "> <div class="component-content"> <p><span class="m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged">W</span>iggins added that in hindsight, Yates’s Giro collapse back in May might have been the best thing to have happened to him “because he’s learnt from it and now he’s won the Vuelta and at 26, he’s got chances to win more Giros, more Tours down the line. There’s only one way to learn and that’s through massive failure like he had at the Giro.” Asked what was next for Yates, Wiggins said he was sure both twins would fancy their chances at the world road race championships in Innsbruck in a couple of weeks.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="dynamicMpu section"> <div id="advert_tmg_dyn_0" class="js-advert advert " data-adtype="dyn_0"></div> </div> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="article-body-text component "> <div class="component-content"> <p>“The natural thing for people to say is that he will go for the Tour next year,” Wiggins said. “I still think he’s got time for that, but he could win a Giro before he does that. I’m sure both him and Adam will be thinking of the World’s as well. Why not keep your heads on for another 10 days?”</p> <p><span class="m_first-letter">B</span>ritish Cycling’s celebrations at another British grand tour success were tempered yesterday by news that British team JLT-Condor will shut down at the end of 2018, the latest in a spate of domestic team closures. 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