P - Australian team Orica-GreenEDGE's odds of luring Brad Wiggins to sign for next season have lengthened after the Brit revealed he's staying with Team Sky.
In Italy for a sponsor's event, the 2012 Tour champion told the Gazzetta dello Sport that he would also like to attempt the hour record next year, and says "I'll do it with these bikes because I'm staying with Sky."
It had been speculated that the 34-year-old - off contract with Sky this year - would move to a rival team after missing out on the squad for this year's Tour de France.
Last month, Orica-GreenEDGE's sports director Matt White said Wiggins would be a good fit for the young professional team who needed an experienced Grand Tour rider.
Cycling regulations state that transfer announcements can't be made before August 1 each year.
Wiggins' next big race will be the Spanish Vuelta starting on August 23 but he says:
"My time as a Grand Tour rider has passed. Sure, I will still enter them, but not to win," he said.
Wiggins finished ninth in the Paris-Roubaix single-day cobblestone classic in April and says "next year I want to win it. That will be my big goal in 2015."
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