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FREE BRADLEY WIGGINS: TOUR DE FORCE PDF John Deering | 256 pages | 01 Jan 2013 | Birlinn General | 9781780271033 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Bradley Wiggins calls Dave Brailsford's Tour de France team selection into question | Cyclingnews One-day races and Classics. Sir Bradley Marc WigginsCBE born 28 April is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between and Nicknamed "Wiggo", he began Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force cycling career on the track, but later Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force the transition to road cycling. He won world titles in four disciplines Madison, individual pursuit, team Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force and road time trialand Olympic gold in three individual pursuit, team pursuit and road time trial. He is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road as well as winning the Tour de France. He has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions. He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Forceand as of held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals. He is the only rider to win the Tour de France and Olympic Gold in the same year, winning them a week apart in He competed on the track from the early part of his career until Between and he won ten medals at the track world championshipsof which six were gold: three in the individual pursuittwo in Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force team pursuit and one in the madison. His first Olympic medal was a bronze in the team pursuit in Sydney Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force, before winning three medals including the gold in the individual pursuit at the Athensand two golds in the individual and team pursuit Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force the Beijing On the road, Wiggins turned professional in but made it his focus from Initially viewed as a time trial specialist and as a rouleurhe showed his ability in stage races when he came fourth in the Tour de France ; he was later promoted to third after Lance Armstrong 's results were annulled in Wiggins returned to the track at the Commonwealth Gamesand in June he set a new hour record with a distance of Inhe won a further world championship in the madison, and gold in the team pursuit at the Olympicshis fifth successive medal winning appearance at the Games. He retired from all forms of professional cycling on 28 December Wiggins was awarded a CBE in They concluded inter alia that Team Sky had used the powerful banned corticosteroid triamcinolone in under TUE "to prepare Bradley Wiggins, and possibly other riders supporting him, for the Tour de France. The purpose of this was not to treat medical need, but to improve his power to weight ratio ahead of the race. Wiggins had already retired from competitions, and the UCI took no further action. His father lived in Belgium as a professional cyclist. His father left the family when Wiggins was two. Brendan and Linda separated when Wiggins was Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force his late teens. Football was his first passion and he was an Arsenal fan, although he would watch rivals Tottenham Hotspur play because his friends supported them. She explained it was one of the events at Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force his father had been successful. Inaged 12, he entered his first race, the West London Challenge 92, on the unopened A dual carriageway in Hayeswest London. In recognition of his early achievements, he was inducted into the London Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force Games Hall of Fame. Selectors invited him to train at weekends at Manchester Velodrome. After leaving school he enrolled on a BTEC foundation course in business studies, but left due to cycling commitments. His breakthrough came in Junewinning the three-kilometre individual pursuit at the junior track world championships in Cuba, aged Inhe signed for the Linda McCartney Racing Teama British professional road cycling team, but it disbanded after internal problems. Two weeks later he went to the track world championships in Antwerp, managing seventh place in the individual pursuit and consecutive silver in the team pursuit. On the 18th stage he was eliminated from the race, finishing outside of the time limit in Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force group of 53 riders. He beat Roberts by 0. With 90 laps left of theHayles crashed with Dutchman Robert Slippensreturning after a few laps. They lost a lap to their rivals, but with 30 to go Wiggins attacked, and they regained the lost lap, moving into second place. They lost points in the final sprint, moving them down to third, taking the bronze medal with 12 points, behind Switzerland on 15 and Australia on In MarchWiggins returned to the track for the track world championships in Palma, Majorca, his first appearance at the championships since Despite this Wiggins continued racing for Cofidis, and in August he won the time trial on stage four of the Tour du Poitou-Charentes. For the season, Wiggins's focus was on the track and on the Summer Olympics in Beijing, deciding not to compete in the Tour de France. In March Wiggins competed in the track world championships in Manchester, defending his individual pursuit title by beating Dutchman Jenning Huizenga in the final, his third world title in the discipline. At around halfway through the race they appeared to be out of contention, with their closest rivals all gaining a lap; but with Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force laps left to race, Wiggins launched an attack which helped Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force reach the field ten laps later, taking the lead, due to their superior points they had collected in the sprints. They held on to win the gold medal, finishing with 19 points, ahead of Germany on At the Olympics he began the defence of his title in the individual pursuitqualifying with a time of Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force minutes and Wiggins switched his focus to road and moved Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force his family to the city of Girona in north-east Spain, where Garmin— Slipstream were based. Wiggins moved back up to fourth, after finishing in second place in the time trial on stage 19, finishing in sixth place 42 seconds down on winner Contador. This decision retroactively gave him the first podium finish by a British rider in Tour de France history. In September Wiggins won the national time trial championship in Buckinghamshire, [] and in September at the road world championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, was on course for a bronze medal in the time trialuntil Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force mechanical problem and a delay getting a replacement bike ended with him finishing in 21st place. Wiggins had been contracted to ride for Garmin Slipstream again inbut it was announced on 10 December that he was to leave to join Team Skyhaving signed a four-year contract with the new British team. Wiggins began as a team leader for the first time and his main target was to win the Tour de France. In May Wiggins took his first Grand Tour victory on the wet streets of Amsterdam in the opening time trial of the Giro d'Italiabecoming the second Briton to wear the pink jersey after Cavendish in He finished the race 40th overall, one hour, 47 minutes and 58 seconds behind overall winner Ivan Basso of Liquigas—Doimo. Wiggins then went to a training camp in the Alpstesting the mountain stages used for the Tour; he struggled to find his fitness. Wiggins was team leader of Team Sky again at the start of He opted not to enter the Giro d'Italiaconcentrating instead on shorter events and the classics before undertaking altitude training to improve his climbing for the Tour de France. He then went for altitude training in the Alps, in preparation for the Tour. The Vuelta and the world championships were seen as a dress rehearsal for In September he competed in the road world championships in Copenhagen, he won the silver medal in the In Wiggins continued to focus on road racing. The individual pursuit was removed from the programme at the Olympics later in the year, and in December coach Rod Ellingworth told The Guardian"The chances of him doing the team pursuit are really slim now". In March Wiggins finished second in the opening time trial of the Paris— Niceone second behind Vacansoleil—DCM's Gustav Larssonwho avoided the wet conditions, unlike Wiggins and the other favourites that set off later in the day. His final stage victory was also good enough to give him the points classification. On the stage one of the Tour de Romandie in April, Wiggins took a rare sprint victory from a group of 59 riders. Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force entered the Tour de France as one of the favourites to win it. Froome accelerated about 4 kilometres 2. Several riders suffered punctures, including Evans, Bradley Wiggins: Tour de Force defending champion, who lost approximately two minutes while his team repaired his bicycle. Wiggins and his fellow members of Team Sky emerged without a puncture. Believing that a puncture resulting from an unfortunate incident should not determine the fate of a competitor, Wiggins then had his teammates and the rest of the peloton slow down to allow Evans and other affected cyclists to catch up. By doing so he became the most decorated British Olympian, with seven medals, surpassing the six won by Sir Steve Redgrave.

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