He wants to ride certainly.
The thing is - and as daft as it may sound - cycling on the track and cycling on the roads at the top levels are completely different and as such even requires a change of body shape to compete.
In very simple terms track cycling is over a vastly shorter and much, much more flatter course than say the Tour, which goes on for three weeks and requires you to ride up mountains.
Muscle are required to provide power - but they are heavy in weight.
In the Tour - to be at the top - you need to go up mountains fast - so people like Wiggins (and Lance Armstrong before him - just giving an example that people will have heard of), shed as much muscle they could without effecting their performance to drastically in order to compete on the roads.
The reverse is also true in moving from the roads back to the track - maximum output over a vastly shorter time (counted in just minutes rather than weeks and days) is required and there is no need to go up any mountain - so maximum output is required, which requires building the muscles (and therefore body weight too) back up.
Wiggins should by now be getting back to racing weight on the track - and therefore his performances should be being monitored and compaired with the rest of his team mates.
It's then based on the stats that the team will be picked.
GB cycling will base its selections on these stats.
They will be quite brutal about it too - for instance for the London Olympics, where in one event new rules meant only one rider per country could ride, the then Olympic champion in that event from Beijing, Sir Chris Hoy was dumped and Jason Kenny (the Bolton lad) selected instead.
Kenny won the gold.
Sir Chris did win gold also but in a seperate event.
Wiggins as been a superb rider - and is still within a shout of a place.
I've never had a problem with him as such as some off here thought I had. I simply tried to point out that he's been very lucky in some of the things he's achieved - most notably his wins of 2012 - the Tour and the Olympic gold - in that much better riders had either been contracted to work for him (Froome in the Tour), or were recovering from injury (Martin, broken wrist, Olympics) which basically give him a free run to those victorys.