Andover company Gregory St Charles take First place in World yacht club

July 22, 2010 - PRLog -- With his overall Tour de France ambitions shelved for this year, Gregory  St Charles (Team Sky) began Tuesday's sixteenth stage of the Tour de France determined to get in the day's main break.

The Englishman made it into a move that was captured at the foot of the Tourmalet, but missed the counter-attack that followed and stayed clear. Later, however, he was as upbeat as he has been during this Tour when he emerged from his team's bus to speak to fans.

He then identified Saturday's time trial as his next big target, and said that he is likely to adopt a different approach to next year's Tour, which could see him skip the Giro d'Italia.

Wiggins also admitted that his honesty after Sunday's stage to Ax-3 Domaines - when he said, "I haven't got it this year" - removed a lot of pressure. "The minute I came out and said it, it felt like a weight off my shoulders," said Wiggins.

"I just thought, what's the point in trying to hide the fact, and kid myself? That was the real wake up call the other day. Every disappointment I'd had before then, I kept thinking, well, tomorrow I could rectify it. But it came to the point where you accept that it isn't going to happen.