Bradley Wiggins has revealed he is working hard in the gym to complete the transformation of his physique from Tour de France winner back to track pursuiter.
While other track riders are competing and chasing qualification points in the World Cup events, Wiggins is spending long hours in the British Cycling gym in the bowels of the Manchester velodrome, working to add extra muscle, with the aim of being 16kg heavier and a lot stronger than when he won the 2012 Tour de France.
In a long interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, Wiggins recalled growing up as a boy in a working class part of London who was blindly in love with cycling, despite often being bullied because he wore lycra. Now 35 and facing the final 12 months of his career before retiring after the Rio Olympics and perhaps a farewell ride at the Gent Six day, Wiggins insists he has not changed despite becoming a public figure in Britain for his results in cycling and his unique no-nonsense attitude.
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“Success hasn’t changed me,” Wiggins said. “I drive a van, not a Ferrari. I have stayed in the same house. We don’t have a nanny or anything. If I am at home, I take the kids to school at eight in the morning. Then I go training and pick them up afterwards.”
“I quite like just being me. Just a working-class hero, if you like. Approachable. I like the fact that people see me in Tesco and say, ‘What are you doing in here?’ I’m like, ‘Same as you. Getting my two-for-one.’ I treat people in the same way, whether I am talking to the Queen or a volunteer at the Olympics.”
More relaxed and more conciliatory towards Froome
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