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Sir Bradley Wiggins breaks world record!

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Copper Dragon

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I know bugger all about the sport cycling , but what I do know is that I used to cycle everywhere at one time and Bradley Wiggins is a world record holder, an Olympic champion and a former Tour de France winner.

Which means he was cycling against a lot of other people to win them races and it takes a lot of graft to do it.

Some folk in this country always try to find a downer on our triumphant sportsmen/women. He's just broken a world record for goodness sake.

Sluffy

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Copper Dragon wrote:I know bugger all about the sport cycling.

At least we agree on one thing.

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Sluffy wrote:
Copper Dragon wrote:I know bugger all about the sport cycling.

At least we agree on one thing.
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Boggersbelief

Boggersbelief
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Sluffy, how old are you? :rofl:

Copper Dragon

Copper Dragon
Ivan Campo
Ivan Campo

Sluffy wrote:
Copper Dragon wrote:I know bugger all about the sport cycling.

At least we agree on one thing.


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Boggersbelief wrote:Sluffy, how old are you? :rofl:
don't do it boggers

Boggersbelief

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Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Acting like a child that had its candy taken away. Wiggins is top dog, end of

Sluffy

Sluffy
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Bump!

Just thought I would let people know that Wiggins record has now been broken by a Belgium cyclist called Victor Camenaerts.

He sort of cheated a little bit in that he broke the record at altitude, which is easier than at sea level because the atmosphere is that much thinner.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/47955952

There's not actually been too many attempts on the record since Wiggins set it, so it has stood longer than I predicted at the time of this thread.

For the record since Wiggins won the Tour de France and Olympic gold in 2012 and set the record in 2015 he's won nothing of note and has since retired from cycling.

Chris Froome (who was the better cyclist than Wiggins in 2012 - but was prohibited to challenge him being on the same team) has since won the Tour four times as well as the Tours of Italy and Spain.

Seems I did know a little bit about cycling after all!

wanderlust

wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

I'm still gutted that my grandad's Land's End to John O'Groats tandem record was broken. Although they did it the other way round and not because they thought it would be all downhill.

Ten Bobsworth


Frank Worthington
Frank Worthington

According to Bradley Wiggins:

The whole country is obsessed with celebrity and the problem is that we are getting mixed up between people who have achieved amazing things and plastic celebrities who have achieved nothing at all.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bradley-wiggins-the-most-complex-man-ive-ever-met-pr7sh7lt0

Was he right?

wanderlust

wanderlust
Nat Lofthouse
Nat Lofthouse

Ten Bobsworth wrote: According to Bradley Wiggins:

The whole country is obsessed with celebrity and the problem is that we are getting mixed up between people who have achieved amazing things and plastic celebrities who have achieved nothing at all.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bradley-wiggins-the-most-complex-man-ive-ever-met-pr7sh7lt0

Was he right?
To some extent for sure. How "influencers", reality TV contestants etc achieve celebrity status is beyond me.

Wiggins put in the work and achieved loads despite being sexually groomed as a kid which could well have stopped his career before it started.

Sluffy

Sluffy
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I can't read the article because it is behind the Times paywall but from my longstanding cycling interest I'm aware the Wiggins isn't the most moralistic and truest person you would ever wish to meet.

He was a good cyclist - but never the best.

He won the Tour de France but his team mate Chris Froome was by far the better cyclist and would have easily won it if he hadn't been forced to ride to team orders - I said that at the time and their subsequent careers after that Tour clearly demonstrated my point.

Wiggins also won a gold at the 2012 Olympics but on the day two better cyclist than him in that competition were injured.  You can only beat those there and on their best form at the time - so I don't rubbish Wiggins his gold but he was extremely fortunate with the circumstances that allowed him to do so on the day.

Wiggins also broke the world hour record.

This is somewhat of a strange record - it used to be seen as a major achievement many years ago but now it is seen as somewhat as a irrelevant title - think of it as holding the current 'mile' record in athletics - world news when Bannister broke the four minute mark but not even a competition in normal events these days.

When Wiggins won the Tour he pledged to ride as support to Froome at the Tour the following year - but he deliberately didn't and went back on his word.

He's also clearly has been found to be at (shall we say) the cusp of drug cheating during his career.

So back to your question, I don't know if Wiggins considers himself to have done 'amazing things' - he's certainly got a (completely undeserved imo) knighthood for in effect being the second best rider in the Tour, winning a gold when the best two riders for the event were at the time injured and being seen at the time for being a 'clean' rider when subsequent events now cast a huge shadow over that - but to my mind I would categorise him in the 'plastic celbs' group myself.

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