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Having crashed out of the Tour de France with a smashed collarbone, Bradley Wiggins can be forgiven if he is already plotting a way to put right the wrongs at next year's event.But with the countdown to the London Olympics well underway, Wiggins could be wasting his time if Sky's sports director Sean Yates's prediction is anything to go by.
With the team pursuit in London following just 10 days after the 2012 Tour finishes, Yates believes they are too close together to make doing both possible.
"If the Olympics were one month or six weeks after the Tour, you'd have time to do a bit of track work, but with 10 days there's not enough time to ease back and come up to form like you should," said Yates.
"I can't see how that'd happen. I can't see it being an option. It's not up to me, but if you're doing
the Olympics, then I don't see how riding the Tour is ideal."
It is not only Wiggins who faces missing out on the world's most famous bike race next year.
His Sky team mates Geraint Thomas and Ben Swift are also likely to be absent as there has to be enough of a margin to adapt to the track afterwards.
And British Cycling's Dave Brailsford, who is also Sky's team principal, has made it perfectly clear that the Olympics will take priority.
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