Giro d'Italia: Sir Bradley Wiggins affected by chest infection

Giro d'Italia: Sir Bradley Wiggins affected by chest infection
Team Sky's Sir Bradley Wiggins said he was suffering from a chest infection after finishing home alongside his main rivals to retain fourth place in the overall standings at the end of stage 11. "I'm not feeling very good at the moment, I've had a pretty rough 24 hours," said Wiggins. Lithuania's Ramunas Navardauskas won the 182km stage while Italy's Vincenzo Nibali preserved the overall lead. Wiggins, who crashed on the seventh stage, is two minutes and five seconds behind Nibali. "I've got a chest infection and a bog-standard head cold," Wiggins said. "Fortunately in these days, these kinds of stages, there's just a bit of fighting and you can get through them and hide a little bit. But I just want to try and fight through it and hope that in a few days' time I'll be all right. Most of the team have been sick. It seems to last for three or four days and then you get better." After a very demanding stage on Tuesday,Wednesday's route, from Tarvisio to Vajont, was a lot smoother and it provided some relief for the riders with the field content to stay together for much of the opening downhill section. A breakaway of 20 riders, including Garmin Sharp's Navardauskas, launched an attack. The peloton were happy to allow the escapees to build a gap and Navardauskas won in a time of four hours and 23 minutes. "My team decided to let the break go and then keep things under control behind," said Nibali. "But there will be harder days to come." "We've not been so lucky in this race," said stage winner Navardauskas. "Ryder Hesjedal has had some bad days, and has not been so fortunate, so as a team we wanted to try and turn things around today. All of us wanted to get in a move. It was a long day off the front, but I got in the right break and managed to turn it round for the team. I couldn't be happier." Thursday's stage is a short 134km route from Longarone to Treviso, a track that should suit sprinters like Mark Cavendish. Here are the odds for the stage at Bet365: Mark Cavendish - 4/6 Elia Viviani - 6/1 Nacer Bouhanni - 8/1 Matthew Goss - 12/1 Francisco Ventoso - 20/1
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