Intro:

Sir Bradley Wiggins says Sunday's Paris-Roubaix Classic -- the Briton's last for Team Sky before he leaves to front his own outfit, Team Wiggins -- is a unwanted distraction.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky cyclist:

Q: "It will be your last race on Sunday, what do you feel about that?"

"Nothing. I just focus on the race. I just... I'm not... trying not to think about that, because it is becoming quite negative now and I am not enjoying it. It finishes on Sunday, my career, and not before. I need to focus on the race and not keep thinking about all the nostalgicness of it and all that kind of stuff. So, yes, I'm just trying to focus on getting my head in the right frame of mind, for the race with no thoughts afterwards because, it makes the job even harder..."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky cyclist (Q: "Have you been impressed with his (Kristoff) performance?")

"... He's gone to another level this year and, he seems to be able to do everything you know, time trial, Flanders. I mean I wouldn't have said that he could win last week, but he did and... yes, he has to be the favourite, I guess, tomorrow."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky cyclist (on Paris-Roubaix):

"You can be the best possible shape and finish last anyway. It's really like that. You just have... puncture at the wrong time, crash at the wrong time and it's over and... Greg van Avermaet, he crashed I think 15-20 kilometres away last year and that was it, he was out, and that was just on a silly little dusty corner. So... it's not as much of a gamble as a lottery 'cause you still have to make your own luck, put yourself in the position where you, you wont crash and stuff, but yeah it's not... if it was a time trial thing I could win it, but it's not."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky cyclist:

"Once I crashed (at the Tour of Flanders) I was just on the back foot for the rest of the race and... it became evident that I should try to get, survive the race, get through it for this week and.... but yes, I feel if not perhaps a bit better than where I was this time last year, I was a bit tired after d'Espana, so I feel ready to go, really, I think. You always thing you can have another week or another two weeks, but... it is on Sunday and... I always, like I said, I always think where I was this time last year and... it's a complete contrast really. I mean I know I can do it now, whereas this time last year it was just a, case of trying to confirm to myself that I could do it."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Sir Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky cyclist (on his career):

"Yes... it's hard you know, I don't know really. I don't really think about it at the moment. I guess in years to come I'll look back on these... that's when you'll look back on these times, with affection and everything, but because you are in the moment you're just focused on the performance, you're not really, or you're trying not to think about anything else externally around that. So, but it has, like I said, it has been a good laugh, with the team anyway. We've had a good time the last two weeks, so..."