Sir Bradley Wiggins finished what was purported to be his final race, attacking with partner Mark Cavendish to lap the field on the final Madison of the Gent Six Day in Belgium to take out the overall victory. But the world champion raised questions as to whether or not this would be his final race behind speculation that more Six Day races were in his future.
"This will be the last time we race together for sure," Wiggins said of his partnership with Cavendish before adding, "Maybe not my last, individually. When you think of all that we've achieved together, it's incredible."
When pressed on his future plans, Wiggins refused to commit. "I'm not sure. I just want to enjoy this moment. I still have really good legs, so I don't want to say it's 100 per cent the end, and then make an announcement next week. At the moment I'm just going to enjoy today."
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Wiggins and Cavendish claimed the world championship title in the Madison earlier this year, but Cavendish was denied a place in Great Britain's gold-medal winning team pursuit squad in Rio. Although Cavendish took out the silver medal in the Omnium, he remains one of the few top British track riders to not have Olympic gold, in part because of a lacklustre Madison in Beijing with Wiggins in 2008.
Winning in Gent, Wiggins said, placed the pair amongst some of the greatest partnerships in cycling history.
"We're brothers. We have a good time together, and we'd do anything for each other," Wiggins said of their sometimes rocky relationship. "We fight and bicker, but we know each others' strengths. We've raced together for 12-13 years now. It's been one of the great partnerships like Patrick [Sercu] and Eddy [Merckx], [Danny] Clark and [Don] Allan."
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