He may not have much chance of winning but the mobster defined P-R pretty good. And goodon him for being the first TdF winner since 1992 (WTF?!?) to even start the race. Ilike the guy.

“If you could put yourself in your physical form with 30 to 40 kilometers to go, drop yourself out of a helicopter onto Cancellara’s wheel to just see if you can hold it when he goes … that’s an ideal scenario, but obviously, it’s 220 kilometers before that of little French guys coming underneath you, chopping you, calling you a wanker and all this. I have to get through all of that to be in that position to be able to try to stay with those guys when they go.

“It’s not like a road race, where you can just sit there all day, stop for a wee, come back, pose for the cameras … all that sort of stuff. It’s like no other race.”

Read more at http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/04/news/wiggins-takes-back-seat-sky-rallies-around-boasson-hagen_323846#PkIqS0srpY230ZlD.99