“I was such a loner. I just wanted to get out of the environment. I became so insular. I was quite a strange teenager in many ways and I think the drive on the bike stemmed from adversity.” Wiggins reached the pinnacle of his sport in 2012, when he became the first British winner of the Tour de France before taking Olympic gold in the time trial in London just days later. However, he said he had spent much of his life trying to understand his relationship with his father, Australian cyclist Gary Wiggins, who walked out on the family when Bradley was young and who died in 2008 following a fight at a house party. “It was definitely to do with my dad. Never getting answers when he was murdered in 2008. He left us when I was little, so I met him for the first time when I was 18,” he said.
“We rekindled some kind of relationship but then we didn’t speak for the last couple of years before he was murdered. “He was my hero. I wanted to prove myself to him. He was a good cyclist, he could have been really good, but he was a wasted talent. “He was an alcoholic, a manic depressive, quite violent and he took a lot of amphetamines and (sports) drugs back then.”
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