The most important father figure was his grandfather, George, whom he adored. As Wiggins himself sa

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Name: Bradley Marc Wiggins Date of Birth: April 28, 1980 Height: 1.90m. Weight: 69kg Hits: 2009 - 3rd place Tour de France 2011 - 3rd place Vuelta a Espana 2012 - 1st place Tour de France 7 times World Champion of the Track events in seven Olympic medals (four gold) three times Champion of England in events Road
The story of Bradley Wiggins is a remarkable story. travel one At age 12 he began competing travel one in Herne Hill Velodrome London - on the same track where he had fought his father travel one years ago - and as stated, since I knew that this would be his future. He loved everything about it - the freedom of the track and the street, the sweet agony of training to increase fitness, competition and battle of man against machine.
He was brought up by his mother, Linda, as the Australian father, Garry, to quit when he was two years old. In fact, things were worse than that. They lived in Belgium where Garry Wiggins was making a living as a professional cyclist. When Bradley was with his mother on a visit to her parents in London, Garry wrote a letter telling them not to return home because he had a new girlfriend. Took the ferry to London with four garbage travel one bags filled with their belongings, left her out of the house of his grandparents Bradley in Kilburn and deleted from his life. The Linda and Bradley moved to her parents' house they moved into their own home when Bradley was seven years old and had become a brother of the new partner of his mother.
The Bradley knew nothing of all this when he started cycling. Neither travel one knew that his father was an alcoholic who beat his wife, the drug dealer who had smuggled drugs in Belgium in the diaper of his son, who was serving a sentence in prison, and did not contribute one penny to his upbringing. All they knew was that his father was a professional cyclist travel one and his mother suggested travel one to deal with the sport because it was likely to be very good and he.
At 18, he went to meet his father in Australia and was shocked by the man who met - an angry, pathetic, self-centered monster. As stated by Bradley, the joke is that it probably would not have done cyclist if he was not the father, but certainly would not have happened if his father had not given up his family. When I met him, at the age of 18, his father was very pushy and judgmental with him, something that he had done during his childhood where he had grown up with him. Even the fact that his father was a cyclist travel one and having these elements in nature, would have prevented to deal with cycling. In 2008 Garry Wiggins was beaten to death in Australia. There is no suspect. The Bradley did not attend the funeral.
The most important father figure was his grandfather, George, whom he adored. As Wiggins himself says, "All my whims I learned from him. I asked the male model in a family that consisted mainly travel one of women. The grandparents had three daughters, so there were many aunts. "
Meanwhile, in his professional life coach Shane Sutton has assumed a paternal role. The world of cycling is famous fallokratikos and perhaps no one is more exemplifies this by Sutton, another Australian hard. The Wiggins has said that when hit by the death of his grandfather in 2010, Sutton's response was to meet. A man with enough hard data, presented travel one relentless, ignoring facts that other people consider seriously, after just two days after the death of his grandfather Bradley, told with Australian accent "Man is up, friend, you must move on."
The wife of the Wiggins describes as emotionally "retarded" and why, as he says, is that he tries very hard to express emotions. While many Olympic gold medalists burst into tears, the Wiggins just sat on his throne, made the victory sign with both hands and turned it into a big joke.
Despite the lack of self-confidence, he was sure that he would become a successful travel one cyclist of the moment travel one for the first time made a pedal bike racing. When he was 12 years old, remembers telling art teacher in question will do when you finish school, that will be