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‘Cycling was already on a roll in Great Britain before 2012 and this was the icing on the cake of a golden era. President of British Cycling 1997-2013, UCI President 2013-2017 To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this milestone, Cyclist approached a number of industry figures to gauge the wider legacy of Bradley Wiggins’s yellow jersey heroics. The butterfly effect of a rider of Wiggins’s charisma bringing home the world’s biggest bike race has been staggering.

Since Wiggins broke the ice on the Paris podium with a jest about drawing the raffle numbers, British cycling has hit the jackpot with four riders winning ten Grand Tours between them – more than any other nation. From the back of a motorcycle in his current role for Eurosport and GCN, he shared pearls of wisdom in his own imitable style, running the rule over a new generation of cyclists that follows in his significant tyre tracks.

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This breakthrough triumph for British cycling came five years after the Tour’s Grand Départ in London and just five days before the world’s most recognisable pair of sideburns rang the bell to open the London 2012 Olympics.Ī gold medal in the time-trial capped an extraordinary summer for a man who would soon be partying with his music idol Paul Weller, as Wiggins finally blew off some steam.Ī decade after his seminal victory on the roads of France, Wiggo returned to the pro peloton this July. It’s hard to believe that an entire decade has passed since Bradley Wiggins rode into the record books by becoming Britain’s first ever Tour de France winner. Jamming on stage with the Modfather himself… Legs crossed on the throne outside Hampton Court. Leading out Mark Cavendish on the Rue de Rivoli. A decade on, we hear from a range of industry figures on Wiggo’s legacy, and how it changed a naton’s attitude to cycling Ten years ago today Bradley Wiggins stood on the Champs-Élysées podium as the winner of the 2012 Tour de France.

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