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Wiggins, right, on Sunday. (Photo by James Startt)

Brad Wiggins has a point. But so do fans.

By Joe Lindsey

With apologies to FDJ-BigMat director Marc Madiot, the most emotional moment in Stage 8 of the 2012 Tour de France might not have been his dog-in-the-window screaming act for protg Thibaut Pinots stage win but race leader Brad Wiggins dropping the c-word in the post-race press conference.

Wiggins was asked what his response was to peopleparticularly on social media such as Twitterwho questioned whether the performances they saw in the Tour were free of doping.

Wiggins reply:

I say theyre just fucking wankers, Wiggins said. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone idleness because they cant imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives.

Its easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of shit, Wiggins added, rather than get off their own arses in their own lives and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something. And thats ultimately what counts. C**ts.

And with that, he tossed the microphone on the table and got up and left.

Wiggins has vacillated between calm moments and outbursts this year. Hes normally composed before the press, but he can be set off with the slightest provocation, at which point he turns particularly snarly.

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