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| Bradley Wiggins wins Olympic Gold ! |
As if becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France were not enough for one summer, Wiggins has made this an extraordinary year by any bike racer's standards. It’s been the best summer of Bradley Wiggins life and this is a guy who had won six world track championships and three gold medals. Within a 10-day span he became the first Brit to win the Tour de France then the first man to win Le Tour and the Olympic road time trial championship in the same year.
Importantly also for London, Wiggins' triumph provided a sporting counterpoint as memorable as Danny Boyle's opening ceremony
Bradley Wiggins has just become the most decorated British Olympian of all time. Bradley Wiggins – Tour de France and all-time top GB medal winner. We should enter him for Eurovision.
Before the Tour he achieved a run of
stage-race victories in Paris-Nice, the Tour de Romandie and the
Dauphiné, something no rider of any nationality had done before. In
earlier eras, before the cycle of success kicked into high gear, that
alone would have been enough to earn him a place in British cycling's Valhalla. Now, in the space of 10 days, he has won the yellow jersey, the most coveted prize in cycling, and an Olympic gold medal in the city where he grew up.
And the 32-year-old pointed to British armed forces fighting the Taliban in
the blood and dust of Afghanistan as real men and women of courage –
people who help him keep his feet on the ground after all the adulation
from ecstatic fans everywhere. Wiggins, who is surely on his way to a knighthood, has taken British
cycling to new heights and he predicts more glory for his fellow riders
in the Velodrome.
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