Sir Bradley Wiggins has said that he will have one more season of road racing with Team Sky before concentrating on the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro.
The Team Sky rider has failed to find the form in 2013 which he had in 2012, a year that brought him Tour De Fance and Olympic success and finished 91st in the Eneco Tour.
Wiggins told The Times that his goals had changed and said: "I'm going to continue to the next Olympics and try for a fifth gold on the track. That's the plan.
"Having lost weight and muscle the last few years, I wouldn't be able to walk back into that team pursuit squad, so I'm not taking it for granted, but I am working towards that. It would be nice to finish the career with another Olympic gold."
Wiggins has admitted that Chris Froome has proven his credentials in the Tour De France and said:"I don't mind admitting that Chris is probably a better Grand Tour rider than me. He is a much better climber, he can time-trial well. He has age on his side, he has no kids. That's fine."
"If Chris wants to, he could potentially win five Tours now. So if I want to win another Tour, I'd probably have to leave the team."
Would he leave? "No," he said. "I love this team. This is my home. I'm not going to go"
A lot has gone on over the last year not only between Wiggins and Chris Froome but Wiggins has reached a perspective on it all in his own mind and said: "You can look at it two ways. You can go: 'F****** hell, he's got my crown.' Or, you can think: 'You know what, this race is unbelievable. I did this last year. How did I do it?'
"A year ago, I took everything in my stride, but a year later, you are on the outside watching it and it is inspiring in some ways, watching the guys doing what they were doing. And in a way I was like: 'I'm glad I'm not there because it looks bloody hard.'"