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The chain
Wiggins, Bradley2025
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Bradley Wiggins is the greatest British cyclist of his generation. A national hero on both track and road, he won five Olympic gold medals, eight world titles and the Tour de France. But his is a story mired in contradiction, controversy, and confusion. Sat on a throne after winning gold at London 2012, just ten days after becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France, here was a man with the world at his feet. Sporting hero. People's champion. Legend. Everyone knew who 'Wiggo' was. Everyone, that is, but him. Bradley's own truth was one of a chaotic and disturbing upbringing characterised by abandonment, violence and abuse. The bike had been his escape but he knew that the second he got out of the saddle he was a shadow-man with no self-belief and even less self-worth.
Main title:
The chain / Sir Bradley Wiggins with John Woodhouse.
Author:
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025.
Collation:
326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Audience:
Carries warning. Some readers may find the descriptions of. sexual abuse and drug use in this book distressing.
ISBN:
9780008767730 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.62796.62092920 WIG796.62 WIGG920/WIGB/WIGB/WIGGB.WIG
LC class:
GV1051.W5
Local class:
B WIG796.62B/WIG
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4258448