News about Bradley Wiggins

OLIVER HOLT: I have seen many things that have filled me with wonder and joy during the seven summer Olympic Games that I have covered. I have seen the white sails of the Mistrals and the 470s and the Lasers skimming and whipping and dashing across the waters of Sydney Harbour under an azure sky in 2000.

Tom Pidcock defended his Olympic mountain bike title in dramatic fashion today as the Team GB star battled on despite a puncture during the race, to clinch gold in stunning style. The cyclist, 24, who previously won gold at Tokyo 2020 , held his Olympic title at the race today, just 16 days since he pulled out of the Tour de France because of a positive Covid test. Despite the unfortunate puncture mid race, the impassioned cyclist fought to bring home gold for Team GB, neatly closing the gap between competitors in the final lap. The bony faced 24-year-old will no doubt be celebrating the win with his girlfriend of five years, Bethany Louise Zajac, who watched eagerly from the sidelines as the cyclist brought home victory for Team GB.

JEFF POWELL: It was 3am of a moonlit night in Athens, just one week before the opening ceremony for the 2004 Summer Games, as the First Lady of the Olympics put on a hard hat and set out to spur on construction workers as they raced to beat that deadline. This was by no means the first - nor the last - of the many times Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki delivered flasks of coffee and her patriotic message to men and women working around the clock to deliver what a mocking world was calling 'impossibly Greek.' Her objective on this particular occasion was to inspire a sprint finish to completion of the new Tram line, which would carry the crowds from the city centre to the Olympic Stadium. The track was still a kilometre or so short of the final stop, which itself was not quite finished.

The Tour de France winner (pictured main) and Team GB eight-time Olympic medalist claimed he was sexually assaulted 36 times over a three-year period, between the ages of 13 and 16. The 44-year-old, speaking on the Under the Surface podcast, said he met the '72-year-old ex-military policeman' Stan Knight (pictured top right, right) after being inspired watching the cycling at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

The London 2012 Olympics are seen by many as some of Britain's most glorious days - with memories of a warm summer shining bright on the country's sporting promise. From Queen Elizabeth's appearance alongside Daniel Craig 's James Bond at the opening ceremony, to Rowan Atkinson playing the keyboard and the Spice Girls reuniting for a spectacular performance, the UK pulled out all the stops while the rest of the world watched on. It's also where many sporting heroes became household names, with the likes of Bradley Wiggins (pictured left), Mo Farah and Rebecca Adlington (pictured right) claiming medals in their respective events. But in the 12 years that have passed since and, as another tournament in Paris approaches, Team GB 's stars have experienced very differing fortunes since the games. From one's star's bankruptcy to doping allegations and multiple marriage splits, success at London 2012 seems to have come with a lasting curse for some of its participants. Here, FEMAIL takes a look at where the London 2012 heroes are now, and the tragedies that have faced them since. Pictured centre right to centre left: Victoria Pendleton and Sir Chris Hoy.

When it comes to the big celebrations, many divorced couples are happy to put their differences aside for the children and last weekend was no different for the Wiggins family. Cath Wiggins hosted her ex-husband Bradley for Father's Day, so that he could spend time with their two children, Ben, 19, and 17-year-old Isabella. On a personal level it was a special day, but it also came at a particularly challenging period in their father's life - just 48 hours earlier, cycling legend Sir Bradley had been made bankrupt.

The eight-time Olympic medallist was declared bankrupt at Lancaster county court on June 3, according to The Times , following years of money troubles with numerous business ventures over the years. Wiggins Rights Limited, a company owned by ­Wiggins, his former wife Cath and his mother Linda, entered voluntary liquidation in 2020 with debts of £650,000. These debts later increased to just under £1 million in 2022 and by November 2023, creditors claimed this had not been paid, which they warned would likely lead to him being declared bankrupt. Trustees could now be appointéd to seize Wiggins' assets, with fears that his Olympic and Tour De France medals and even his Sports Personality of the Year trophy could be stripped from him.

After the organization that produced them, SweetSpot, which operated them, went bankrupt last month, the historic Tour of Britain and the prestigious Women's Tour were both barred from this year's world cycling calendar. However, British Cycling has pledged to provide the two national tours themselves, boosting the sport in this region, with further efforts to find new financial backers. The Women's Tour - which will be renamed the Tour of Britain: Women - will take place in June as planned, with the men's Tour of Britain also filling its original calendar slot of September. "While hosting the 2024 events would be extremely difficult, we have already begun positive conversations with partners across all fields of commercial, broadcast, and local delivery, and have been extremely aided by the support we have received to date."

Bradley Wiggins has explained that he hasn't stopped riding bikes because he'didn't like the person he became' during his career,' and that he has faced some tough personal battles. The four-time Olympic gold medalist is widely regarded as Team GB's top-ever champion, but he has revealed the difficult personal battles he faced during his cycling career in upcoming BBC documentary series 'Imposter Syndrome.'

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Sir Bradley Wiggins is the subject of an untold tale about him and a wall that dates back to a time long before his name was established into one. It's from a time before Fancy Bears, Jiffy Bags, and legislative hearings, and a long time before his accounts fell into the red, indicating that everything he touched turned to yellow or gold. According to various sources, the incident occurred in Isleworth, west London, not far from where he grew up.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Sir Dave Brailsford's ability of emerging unscathed from troubling circumstances was described a few years ago. It's worth remembering that Sir Jim Ratcliffe is set to deploy him in his Manchester United rebuild. Jonathan Vaughters, the team's chief of one of Brailsford's cycling team, made the remark in 2018, when Sky revealed that they were going to lose and that they had won all there was to win.

Dan Harvey's brother was nine years older, so Jon saw him 'almost like a second father'. The two men expressed a passion for football that had undergone their allegiances to various football clubs (Tottenham Hotspur for Jon, Crystal Palace for Dan)). 'An older brother could be much worse things,' Jon writes. Just ask Prince Edward'. Dan died at the age of 43 in 2015. Obesity had resulted in diabetes, and Jon lost "the keystone in my Jenga tower."

Stan Knight, a retired former England cyclist, abused the Tour de France champion and some others at the Archer Road Club in Acton, west London, in 2003. He had not been identified by his first name before today, and that was before today. In Litton Cheney, Dorset, the knight will take the sporting child away from home for training camps and into a youth hostel. The Times reports that his sex abuser would persist in sleeping in his bed and grope him in the shower. Another of Knight's victims spoke about violence that was similar to that of the Tour de France champion and four-time OIympic gold winner. He was also abused in the 1990s at the same hostel, 'fondling' him during sports massages. One family has raised questions about Knight, as well as allegations concerning other young children, according to reports. 'Stan was totally useless as a coach,' one of his victims said today.' He was like a kid, a complete idiot. It was as if he used the club just to be around boys. At the club, there are some important questions to answer regarding British Cycling and safeguarding.'

A German writer shared today how she was left in utter shock after a scandalous ballet director allegedly smeared his dog Gustav's faeces over her face after she described one of his performances as "boring" and "disjointed." Wiebke Hüster, 57, a journalist, said Marco Goecke, the opera house's ballet company's director, approached her during the interval of his performance on Saturday night and 'blocked her way' before accusing her of'writing poorly.' Goecke, 50, recovered a bag of dog faeces, who had been freshly made by his Dachshund Gustav just minutes before, removed the excrement from her face in front of'shocked' onlookers, according to Hüster, a dance critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). However, Hüster's occurrence isn't the first time an artist or their relative has come out at a critic. Here's how other creatives have retaliated on their critics, from a writer savaged in a £16,000 ad to Jeanette Winterson turning up on reviewers' doorsteps.