Wiggins in control at le Tour

TOUR DE FRANCE leader Bradley Wiggins was praised for calling a truce on a controversial day as the race was sabotaged with tacks in the road.
By The Newsroom
Published 16th Jul 2012, 13:14 BST

The Tour resumes with today’s 158.5-kilometre 15th stage from Samatan to Pau with organisers having made a formal complaint to French police after tacks caused around 30 punctures on yesterday’s 14th stage.

Jean-Francois Pescheux, competitions director of Tour organisers Amaury Sports Organisation, said: “Around 30 riders ended up with punctures. Some had three or four nails in their tyres. They are imbeciles to have done this.”

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Team Sky sports director Sean Yates said: “We saw it as a bit of an unwritten rule not to push on in that situation. Bradley asserted his authority a bit with the other teams to keep everything together.”

Wiggins has a lead of two minutes five seconds over Team Sky colleague Chris Froome.