0 Tour de France 2012: Bradley Wiggins ready to be first Briton to win 99th Tour de France

Tour de France 2012: Bradley Wiggins ready to be first Briton to win 99th Tour de France

Wiggins will become the first Briton to win the 99^thTour de France in Paris on Sunday. This win would be a great gift for Briton’s before London Olympics begin which the 99^th Tour de France. Only with his monumental achievements last year – he won the Tour’s green jersey and the World Championship – and his sporting X factor did the public finally recognise his talent by voting him the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. 

Wiggins has achieved massively on the track at Olympics and World Championships but, for most of his sporting life, he has also received precious little recognition. Vigorously avoiding complacency and dragging himself out of the comfort zone afforded by his medal-laden Olympic career has been a big part of Wiggins emergence as a road racer. However, if he can arrive in Paris in yellow on Sunday to lift 99^th Tour de France, people will be stopping him in the street for the rest of his life. With Tour de France triumph, he will get ready to glorify this year with fourth gold medal at Olympics.

Bradley Wiggins

Bradley Wiggins, who has put heart and soul and a lot more besides into trying to win the Tour de France. He is also becoming a big name in Spain apparently. A poster of five-time Tour champion Miguel Indurain, used to adorn the young Wiggins’ bedroom wall in Kilburn and on Tuesday Wiggins received Indurain’s personal neckerchief, which the legendary Basque uses when running the bulls in Pamplona. It had a good luck message written on it. Wiggins’s joy and pride was unconfined and will be scarcely matched if he wins on Sunday. 

Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins has promised to support Chris Froome's attempts to win the famous race. He also maintains he would have no problem with taking a support role in future races and has also insisted he will stay with Team Sky until he retires. Wiggins also emphasizes that, in future Tours, he will ride in support of whoever is designated as the team leader. That includes team-mate Chris Froome, currently second overall, who has been so impressive over the past two and a half weeks. Wiggins leads Sky team-mate Froome, who is second, by two minutes and five seconds with five stages remaining. 

There has been speculation that Froome, 27, may feel he has to leave Sky to win the Tour but Wiggins insists he will aid his team-mate in the future. Froome echoed Wiggins’s words, making it quite clear that he would be happy to ride for Wiggins again next year if the centenary Tour was considered more suited to him.

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0 Yellow Jersey to Yellow metal ! Now Bradley is ready for Olympics

Bradley Ready for Olympics

Bradley Wiggins has become the first British rider to win the Tour de France in the race's 109 year history. Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated him shortly after the finish in Paris on Sunday.

The British rider is now hoping for London 2012 glory in the men's road race and the individual time trial. Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to win the Tour de France as compatriot Mark Cavendish claimed a fourth consecutive final-stage victory. Wiggins, 32, finished in the chasing peloton in Sunday's final stage around the streets of Paris with a winning margin of three minutes and 21 seconds. Evans, who made history by becoming Australia's first champion in 2011, finished nearly 16 minutes behind Wiggins, although he did suffer with stomach problems during the final week.

 But even that may not eclipse the feats of Wiggins, whose procession on the Tour de France has set new standards for the cycling boom, and captured the public’s imagination like few athletes before him. 

Wiggins also has power to add gold in London. He will be part of the road-race squad attempting to propel Mark Cavendish to the Olympic title on Saturday. In the time trial four days’ later, Wiggins will try to win his fourth Olympic gold, and seventh medal in total.

After making history in Paris, Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins is heading home to London hoping to add an Olympic gold medal to go with his yellow jersey. The first Briton to win cycling's event will start the Olympic time trial August 1 as a big favourite for the gold. 

  

After donning his winner's yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysees, Wiggins immediately turned his focus to Olympic race in just over a week. He even promised to forgo the Tour winner's traditional glass of champagne.

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