Bradley Wiggins: Cyclist wins gold to become Britain’s most decorated Olympian

Sir Bradley Wiggins has ended his long cycling career on one final high, winning Gold and setting a new world record in men’s team pursuit at the Rio Olympics.

Britain’s Ed Clancy, Steven Burke, Owain Doull and Wiggins bettered their own world record in the four-man, four-kilometres event – set in the first round 80 minutes earlier – to win gold in three minutes 50.265 seconds.

Wiggins went on to become both Britain’s first Tour de France victor and win more Olympic medals than any other Briton, combining a track and road racing career in a way few have been able to master. The Aussies did a (three minutes) 53 (seconds).

Great Britain’s men’s team saw their Olympic campaign come to an end with a 1-1 draw against Spain, which was not enough to secure qualification out of pool A. The experienced duo extended their undefeated run to an incredible five years after another imperious performance, seeing off a late surge from New Zealand’s Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown, who settled for silver.

He really came to the pinnacle of track cycling between 2003 and 2008 where he dominated the individual pursuit, taking gold at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, leading the GB team to gold in team pursuit in 2008 and holding multiple world championship jerseys in the team and individual pursuit as well as the Kieren.

“Wiggo” moves past Sir Steve Redgrave and Sir Chris Hoy on all time British list.

“We are here and we have done it and it is just this four guys here”.

“I’ve always said Ed and Burkey, for me, are two of the most underrated athletes I’ve ever raced with”.

Meanwhile, Andy Murray will go for Olympic gold again after beating Kei Nishikori in the tennis semi-final.

“This is the best of them all”, Clancy said in a first television interview. “It made every single pedal rev and every training session worthwhile”.

He also won team pursuit silver and madison bronze in Athens, and team pursuit bronze in Sydney 16 yeas ago.

Give him another gold for this. What an wonderful achievement.

We’re not exactly sure where they went after that but given none of them had further racing to worry about it’s reasonable to assume they gave it a fair shake.

“We’ve been through the mill a bit”.

“His last lap was like superhero strength”.

He also claimed to understand more than anyone “that there are two sides to every story” but said he knows Sutton “better than anyone and I believe he’ll be cleared”.

Wiggins is good but at 36 we have to accept that whatever the future holds it will not embrace competitive cycling four years hence in Tokyo.

He and Steven’s mother Sharon were joined by their extended family to watch at their home in Colne, Lancashire. I don’t see what evidence they can have, other than someone coming in and saying ‘he said this to me, he said that’.