Wiggins: 'I'm not some s**t rider that's come from nowhere'

Bradley Wiggins and Edvald Boasson Hagen, Tour de France 2012, stage 10

Bradley Wiggins defended his Tour de France lead today on the mountain stage to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine and then his response to a question about doping cynics.

"I don't feel like I should have to sit here and justify everything I have done to the world," Wiggins said in a press conference today.

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