Wiggins on stage 1 and 2 winners Team Jumbo-Visma [02:00]:

Dominant winners as well, who'd have thought that from the Giro? The criticism they took there with Primoz Roglic and the whole saga with that, the potential loss of the Giro GC (General classification). All of a sudden, in the first weekend they've won two stages and still got the yellow jersey. It's been quite a weekend for them.

Wiggins on the form of Peter Sagan [03:05]:

When he hit the front yesterday I thought he was going to win it, I thought that's it we've seen the first stage win for Peter Sagan, usually story, green jersey. He picked up the first intermediate sprint yesterday, not in green, but he looks like he's well on the way already to securing that green jersey which sounds ridiculous, we've only done one day.

Wiggins on Mark Cavendish [05:05]:

I think one noticeable absence who we've become so used to seeing is Mark Cavendish. I felt for him last week when I heard the news. Mark lives for this race. I've known Mark a long time and I've not met another person really who grafts as much as Mark. He really does put the work in. Coming off the back of the illness last year he really wanted to make a statement this year at the Tour de France and if the rumours o be believed he was in the form of his life. We'll never know because he's not here, but it is noticeable because for so many years this did become the Mark Cavendish show.

Wiggins on Cavendish’s Data Dimension teammate Steve Cummings [06:57]:

From a British point of view, I think Steve Cummings entry into the race is superb as well. Steve often gets overlooked in modern day cycling in terms of British success anyway. But you must not forget his Mende stage win a few years ago, the other one in the Alps, Pyrenees, wherever he won it a few years ago. Whenever Steve wins he was always wins big. From a personal point of view, I've known Steve for a long long time, I consider him one of my best friends in cycling. It's great to see him at this race again because he missed out last year and he was bitterly disappointed.

Wiggins on Dimension Data’s aspirations [08:10]:

They haven't really got a choice other than to ride to try and win a stage. They need it don't they. That's kind of why they're here, they've got no overall aspirations. Success for them has to be a stage win.

Wiggins on the absence of Chris Froome [09:10]:

He's (Froome) become synonymous with the Tour now, he's so recognisable. I wasn't at the Tour last year, but I've been here this year and talking about the success of the opening weekend in Brussels. But, I remember watching it on the TV last year and could you remember the whole hostility and furore around Chris Froome's inclusion in the race? So, love him or hate him, he is the best Tour rider of our generation certainly, and maybe would have gone down as one of the greatest, had he won his fifth Tour this year. I still think he can win another Tour, but it does change the dynamic. Ineos have, for the first in quite a number of years, had quite a quiet, easy opening weekend in terms of scrutiny and attention compared to certainly last year which was probably the height of it.

Wiggins on Ineos performance in Stage 2 Team Time Trial [11:05]:

Brilliant, absolutely superb. But, it's amazing to think that we haven't got Chris Froome here, but we've still got two other guys in that team that we're still touting as possible winners of the Tour de France. Of course, Geraint Thomas, winner last year, but Egan Bernal as well which is amazing really. You've got three guys in that team, including Chris who's not here, that are potential Tour winners and you would put down as favourites for the Tour. It's amazing the strength in depth. 

Wiggins on Geraint Thomas’ Tour chances [12:30]:

I'm more interested to see how Geraint is going to step up really. There's been all sorts of talk about whether he's fat, thin, I've heard all sorts this weekend. He looked fantastic when I was in the bunch yesterday. The one thing with G, as I've known for years with him especially on the track program, is nothing fazes him. He's one of the most mentally strong riders I've ever come across. Whether he's at 50%, 80% or 100% he will race in the same manner and get the result he gets from his physical capabilities. And that could win him another Tour de France because G at 90% is still an incredible bike rider. So that'll be interesting, I'm really keen to see that on Thursday (first mountain stage). He looked great in the Team Time Trial today, but G can float round in a team time trial and make it look easy so it's not exactly a great indicator as to whether this guy can win the Tour or not. But Thursday definitely. It's going to be interesting to see how they play that with Bernal and G. How they run at La Planche des Belle Filles in the final there.

On Thomas only being named as co-leader for Ineos alongside Egan Bernal [13:59]:

It is a tough one, but I think G is wise enough to know that he's not had the greatest of runs this year. I think he's benefited from that join leadership thing, although last year they did keep saying it was for Chris Froome to the camera anyway. I think behind-the-scenes there was no doubt in anyone's mind that it was going to be G. I think that team has got used to riding to its strengths at that moment. You can only deal with the facts you've got at the time and I think G will be aware of that. He knows that in another race, at another time, it will be him that is the leader. So, they can't be deluded, they have to be realistic, they have to ride to their strengths, and you'd say the man in form at the moment is Bernal. The man who should be commanding the respect is G as last year's winner. I don't think it's a bad tactic to employ. G certainly for one minute wouldn't say given the choice 'do you want Bernal to sacrifice himself for you on the Plance des Belle Filles on Thursday?' G would probably be the first to say 'not so sure you should do that just in case' - because that adds extra pressure to G. So, it's not a bad thing to be going along for the next couple of weeks as a kind of joint leadership.

On Ineos taking on La Planche des Belle Filles climb on Thursday [15:25]:

It will give us an indicator as to who they are going to sacrifice early doors. We've got Wout Poels haven't we... they've got an amazing team. I can't wait to see it really. I think if they (Thomas/Bernal) both get there on zero time to each other as it were, no time losses, no more crashes in the next few days. Then it's going to be a really interesting couple of weeks.

Wiggins on his first return to the Tour de France since 2012 [16:50]:

Because I have been away long enough and sort of detached myself from it, I see it for what it is now, I don’t have an ego anymore, I don’t see myself as an athlete, and I can see it from an external perspective, which is actually quite a healthy thing to do. It means I can commentate and give my view on a sport that I love and say it as I see it, there is no allegiances, I don’t have to be horrible to anyone, it’s just calling it as you see it, it’s actually a really enjoyable way to come back to the race. I’ll never get my head around all the stopping and taking my photos, it’s quite embarrassing, because I feel like I am not that person anymore, that person is dead, but at the same time, it’s great to be back and I just feel honoured to be back here, especially on the motorbike thing, it’s just such a different way to see it. It’s a real honour to be back in that peloton, seeing some old faces, kind of seeing the race from a different point of view. Also, for me, I feel like I see things other people don’t see, and those things might feel obvious to me, but having spoken to a few people, it’s not. Not everyone sees it like that, and the most obvious things to me, the things I take for granted, are actually probably the most interesting things for the viewer, you actually start to see it from the viewers point of view. It’s just as crazy in the convoy as it is in the peloton. I cannot wait for the mountain stages, I think that’s going to be quite something, see people get dropped. I was fortunate enough to be behind Mitchelton-Scott and Simon Yates got dropped and we were literally meters away from him as we passed him, and he was still trying his hardest, and the fan in me came out and I fist pumped and shouted, ‘Come on Simon, keep going!’ because you just want them to do so well.

Wiggins on his love of the cycling and being back at the Tour de France for the first time since 2012 [19:26]:

Had I not won the Tour and had a career, I’d still be watching the Tour, it’s just now I have got a platform and a voice to be able to give an opinion. There are probably plenty of people like me, maybe not ridden the Tour de France, but have the same passion. I think it’s very rare that you get someone who loves the sport, knows the sport inside out, that have also raced at that level, it gives you as Dave Brailsford would say, that ‘three-pronged attack’, you’ve got the passion, you’ve got the love and you’ve got the knowledge. Lots of cyclists that I’ve been teammates with hate the sport, they aren’t interested in the history of it, they just do it as a job. I am in a very fortunate position that I get to make a living still working around the sport I love.

I’ve bought three yellow jerseys with me, Sean Yates’ one because it’s 25 years since he took yellow on that stage in Rennes, his famous comments after to Paul Sherwen. ‘It’s not over till the fat lady sings. I bought one of Eddy Merckx’s yellow jerseys from 1969 and I’ve got Fausto Coppi’s yellow jersey from 1949, which is 70 years ago. I thought if anyone wanted to look at them during the race, I’d just whip them out, they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but they are definitely mine! That’s what is so special about it for me, we are here now at the Tour de France, but it’s the same race now as it was back then 70 years ago, they were still racing to be the fastest man around. The setting was very different, no buses, no social media. The last stage in 1949 was 340km from Nancy to Paris, just for the procession, the stage before was an 130km mountain time-trial and the stage before that was 385km. That was just the last three days of the Tour de France then. Changing your own tires, no nice little abyss to come back to, it’s quite phenomenal really, what those guys went through. The iconography in the photos when you look back. These guys, Bernal, G, they are still trying to do the same thing, just in a different environment, but fundamentally they are racing a bike around France for three weeks trying to be the fastest. Sean Yates held it for one day in 1994, he was a selfless rider that rode for other people, I remember watching that at 14, and that was his reward that one day where he got yellow, there wasn’t a single rider then that wasn’t happy for Sean. In a time where we are spoilt for British talent, Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, the Yates brothers, Mark Cavendish, Steve Cummings, it phenomenal. Back then, we had Robert Millar on his way out, Sean Yates, Chris Boardman bursting on to the scene, we’d waited for 30/40 years since Tom Simpson, and we had two in the same race in 1994, Boardman won the prologue and Yates took it later. It’s was a different time then as a British fan as it is today.