“It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.”

British former road and track racing cyclist

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, active from 2001 to 2016. He is known for becoming Great Britain's most decorated Olympian and for his success across both track and road racing. Wiggins won eight Olympic medals across five Games and remains the only rider to have won World and Olympic titles on both the track and the road. In 2012, he became the first British winner of the Tour de France, a landmark moment in British cycling.