Sir Bradley Wiggins to kick off his season with Tour of Qatar

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Sir Bradley Wiggins will kick off his season with the Tour of Qatar on 8-13 February.

Qatar marks the start of his final season with Sky as he looks ahead to Paris-Nice on 8-15 March and the hour record in June this year.

The Qatar website lists Wiggins’s team as Ian Stannard, Chris Sutton, Luke Rowe, Danny Pate, Christian Knees, Bernhard Eisel and Andrew Fenn.

Mark Cavendish, meanwhile, will race in the Dubai Tour, having just finished the Tour de San Luis where he won the final stage.

Wiggins plans to return to Europe for the start of the one-day northern Classics, which open with two Belgian events, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on 28 February and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on 1 March.

He is due to take a break before two final one-day events; the Grand Prix E3 at Harelbeke in Belgium on 27 March and the Schedeprijs on 8 April and then make an attempt on the Paris-Roubaix one-day Classic on 12 April.