Tag: Bradley Wiggins
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A fans’ guide to knowing where to draw ‘the line’ when it comes to Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky doping allegations
It would be good to write about Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico this week, but unfortunately that’ll have to wait. Right now we need to talk about Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, British Cycling and the latest wave of doping allegations. What’s happened? This week saw the release of a report by the digital, culture, media and sport…
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Bradley Wiggins’ gurning on The Jump – a real dignity-stripper with which to commence retirement
Bradley Wiggins has retired from cycling. I would have written something about it sooner, but he voiced so many contradictory plans that it wasn’t until I saw the last 25 seconds of The Jump last night that I honestly believed it had happened. Those 25 seconds were… painful. I wouldn’t call myself a Wiggins ‘fan’…
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All the unsatisfying equivocal answers about Bradley Wiggins’ asthma TUEs
There are things I write about because I want to and there are things I write about because I think it’ll look weird if I don’t. This is the latter. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t want to write about this. I’ll write about any old shit. The background You’ll most likely…
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The freakish box-ticking of Bradley Wiggins – a World Championships Time Trial review
Sit Bradley Wiggins down, hand him a form and a ballpoint pen and ask him to tick some boxes. He’ll look at you with a surly look on his face and probably flick the pen at you in a fit of pique. Then he’ll look at the form, spot something he likes the look of…
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Dylan Van Baarle clings on to win the Tour of Britain
The Tour of Britain is not a top flight race and Dylan Van Baarle’s victory would seem to reflect that. But let’s just see how he goes next season. Van Baarle beat some top riders and at 22, his best years are to come. Year by year, the Tour of Britain route is getting harder…
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Mark Renshaw wins one for the pilot fish
I probably should have done some sort of ‘riders to watch’ post for the Tour of Britain. Fortunately, the end of stage two did it for me with many of the strongest names taking turns to lead down the descent of the Great Orme where they could be seen from a faintly disconcerting side-on camera…
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Wiggins, Froome and Grand Tour fitness
You can ride hard one day and then feel good enough to ride hard again the next day or you can ride hard one day and then need to spend the next day on the sofa drinking tea, eating sandwiches and moaning like one of the undead each time you get up. That’s Bradley Wiggins’…
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Domenico Pozzovivo rises up hillside and general classification
You can’t claim ignorance of the major protagonist from yesterday’s stage, for it was Domenico Pozzovivo, the object of infatuation for this website. The stars aligned for our Domenico. It was dry, it was uphill and he could ride on his own. As ever, he picked the steepest section of the final climb to attack.…
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Bradley Wiggins performs on the rest day
That kind of sounds like he gathered all the riders together and did a stand-up routine or sang I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor for them. But no, he’s actually elsewhere, racing on his bicycle. Specifically, he’s at the Tour of California, an eight-day stage race which isn’t quite as important as it thinks it…
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Four British riders for the Spring Classics
I make no apologies for the Brit-centric nature of this website. I have milk in my tea and it’s a .co.uk domain name. You can’t argue with unshakeable truths such as those. Today’s article therefore takes a look at the handful of riders who will be carrying Britain’s fairly slim hopes in the 2014 Spring…