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Wiggins v Eddie the Eagle. Some thoughts on British victory psyche in the run up to the Olympics. Click if you're interested! Falling With Style: Wiggins v Eddie the Eagle - the changing face of the British Anti hero
Wiggins diversion from the British cultural script is wonderful. 20 years ago he would have made his own bike out of spares, done sponsored rides to pay for the tour and finished after dark every night because he had a carrier bag of bike spanners and a halfords puncture repair kit swinging from his handlebars. 20 years ago us Brits were still suspicious of exotic European men in Lycra. We preferred our endurance athletes in tweed suits and handlebar moustaches. At least Bradley is part way there with the sideburns!
I don't image, for one minute, Robert Millar an all the cyclists that went before him, would revel in that paragraph.