Tour de France 2022: Bradley Wiggins hails Controversial Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl principal Lefevere as 'lucky'

Bradley Wiggins described Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team principal Patrick Lefevere as a ‘lucky b******’ as his squad has two stage wins at the Tour de France with three races gone. The Tour started in Denmark this year with Belgian Yves Lampaert winning the opening 13.2km Individual Time Trial in Copenhagen in wet conditions.

Ad/> There was another win at stage two for the team as Fabio Jakobsen sprinted to victory, which vindicated — for now at least — his inclusion ahead of veteran sprinter Mark Cavendish, who holds the records for stage wins on the Tour after a late career resurgence with the team, replacing Sam Bennett. Tour de FranceBlazin’ Saddles: 10 takeaways from the Tour’s Danish Grand Depart5 HOURS AGO Bennett’s exit came after sustained criticism from Lefevere, and Wiggins explained on the Bradley Wiggins show that the outspoken Belgian is a controversial but successful figure in cycling.

“After all the talk, Mark Cavendish not being here, which you know, was big news,” he began. “And I think a lot of people were anticipating that coming back on Patrick Lefevere that decision, specifically, particularly with no [Julian] Alaphillipe in the team as well.

And the lucky b******* has come away with the prologue and stage one, which no one expected. Lampaert to win the prologue? And of course, yeah, we might have expected Jakobson to do something but to win the first two stages!” Van Vleuten wins Stage 4 ahead of Garcia as GC gets blown wide open Blazin' Saddles: 10 takeaways from teh Tour's Danish Grand Depart Giro Donne Stage 4 — as it happened Wiggins continued, saying: “Patrick and his character is polarising, and upsets a lot of people.