Monday 13 May 2013 16:47, UK
Control. Control is what Bradley Wiggins needs, what he had at last year's Tour de France, but which is now proving as slippery as an Italian descent.
And yet, as compelling as his turmoil has been, it is a great pity that his second place in Saturday's time trial seemed to overshadow the performance of the winner, Alex Dowsett. What a story Dowsett's victory was - or should have been. He became the first haemophiliac winner of a Grand Tour stage, and is totally vindicated in leaving Team Sky in search of opportunities to start Grand Tours. Here I have spent an entire column discussing Wiggins, and so am also guilty of not giving 24-year-old Dowsett, only the 16th British rider to win a Grand Tour stage, the credit he deserves. I will return to him in a future blog. Twitter.com/richardmoore73
