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  • Bradley Wiggins’ body fat

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    Cyclists’ bodies are famously freakish. Thighs, lungs and hearts are enormous, while the arms and torso tend to be all emaciated. For such fit people, they can look damn sickly. Bradley Wiggins is 6ft 3in (190cm) but only weighs 10st 9lbs (69kg). In terms of body fat, he said he was down to four per…

  • Bradley Wiggins quotes from the 2012 Tour de France

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    Bradley Wiggins isn’t media-trained. It shows. He’s worth listening to. As a result of this, I thought it might be worth bringing together just a few of his best quotes from over the course of the 2012 Tour de France. What does he think about the people on social networks who point fingers regarding doping.…

  • One yellow jersey – many owners

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    As defining images go, you’d think it would be difficult to beat the moment 1km from the finish of the final stage of this year’s Tour de France. Bradley Wiggins, in his yellow jersey, led. The entire peloton trailed behind him. However, there was a better moment and it came just a few seconds afterwards.…

  • Bradley Wiggins – mean and average

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    I own a yellow T-shirt. I think I might wear it tomorrow in honour of the man attached to Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns. After another walloping time trial, Wiggins seems set to become Britain’s first Tour de France winner. However, perhaps the most remarkable thing about all of this is the fact that even if a…

  • Chris Froome sacrifices stage, Tour and self for Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky

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    This may be an exaggeration, but it’s not as ludicrous as it seems. Bouncing up the final climb of stage 17, Chris Froome seemed entirely unarsed by the gradient and more than capable of hauling in Alejandro Valverde. However, he opted to wait for Wiggins. Potential stage win lost. Froome also outperformed Bradley Wiggins in…

  • Bradley Wiggins is good enough in the mountains

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    Plenty of people are bitching and moaning about how no-one’s attacking Bradley Wiggins in the mountains. There seems to be an assumption that as Wiggins is a time triallist, the likes of Nibali and Evans will be able to gain some time in the Pyrenees. Well, that simply isn’t happening. If Nibali is better than…

  • Rest day round-up – where everything stands in the Tour de France

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    A rest day today. Nowt going on. The riders will be cyling non-competitively for mere tens of kilometres, the lazy sods, so we’ll have to make do with taking stock of where we’re up to. Overall/yellow jersey Bradley Wiggins has a 2m 5s lead over his team mate, Chris “Froomedog” Froome. He has 2m 23s…

  • Half an idea what’s happening in the Tour de France

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    If you’ve no idea what’s going on in the Tour de France, here’s an update from someone with half an idea. Lesson one: forget about all the guys who won stages in the first week. They were just making hay while the road was flat. Yesterday it was onto the serious business. One of the…

  • Bradley Wiggins – Tour de France rider to know and love

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    Say what you like about Wiggo, at least he’s got the decency to be quite tall and over 30 years of age. Those are qualities I can get behind. Not so sure about the freakishly low body fat or the decision to stop drinking to achieve that, but nobody’s perfect. Wiggins often comes across as…