Sir Dave Brailsford has confirmed that Sir Bradley Wiggins escaped injury during the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia this afternoon.
The Tour de France champion hit the tarmac with rain making the roads slippery as the peleton approached Pescara, before losing time in the final kilometres of the stage.
The Team Sky boss told the outfit's website: "Bradley's fine. There's no physical injury. Ultimately when you have difficult conditions like these and hard racing this type of thing can happen. It's the Giro.
"You can have good days and bad days and you have to wait until the end to tot them all up and see where you are. It's a setback, but Brad's still very much in the hunt.
"We've now got to take each day as it comes, focus on fully recovering tonight and hitting the time trial hard tomorrow. We'll see where we are tomorrow night and take stock of the situation then."
Wiggins dropped to 23rd in the general classification standings after losing more than a minute because of the incident.
The stage was won by Lotto-Belisol rider Adam Hansen.
Sian Cowper
