Bradley wiggins biography reviews

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In Pursuit of Glory

September 1,

I found this book really interesting and insightful.

The man doesn't have an easy ride to the top and at times has to really fight Once there he seems to have a habit of self detonating when things are going well. A constant battle.

Sometimes the early chapters of these books are a bit of a bore, this wasn't, with talk of his early life, minus a father figure and watching Chris Boardman on the TV in the Barcelona Olympics as being the trigger that got him into cycling, I found the whole thing quite pacey and good to read. Being brought up by his Mom, much in the way Lance Armstrong was.

His career takes him to the Athens Olympics where he wins Gold and meets up with his Alcoholic former Pro waster of a father. A man who never seems to be proud of him throughout the book.

Brad went off the rails after this and at several other times in his career to date and with the guidance of Chris Boardman himself, Dave Brailsford and the various Sports Scientists and Psych's at team GB, keeping Brad in check seemed a task and a half as he regularly went AWOL.

I found Brad to be a very vulnerable character and often selfish, not giving a proper turn for Mark Cavendish in the Madison final as Wiggo had already won Beijing Olympic Golds the day before ju

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Review: My Time by Bradley Wiggins

Published by Lyn on 18 November

Julia Stagg has lots of good things to say about My Time the new autobiography of Tour de France winner, Bradley Wiggins.

Laconic. Reserved. Frank. At first reading, the adjectives used to describe the man himself could well be applied to Wiggins’ latest book, My Time. It opens with an account of his terrible year on the bike in and, in all truthfulness, I found it slow going. It stuttered. It rambled in places. There was the odd nugget of insight but, on the whole, it felt superficial, the real cyclist remaining elusive as he has done for many an interviewer. Which is perhaps the problem as the book was written with cycling journalist William Fotheringham, author of Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike and Put Me Back On My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson, among others. With the Wiggins book, it's as if he's finding his feet in the opening pages, more with the subject than the subject matter.

By the second section, though, which starts with the beginning of the season, Wiggins has found his stride and he begins to open up. Alongside breathtaking descriptions of his victories that year – so many that one is inclined to forget the Paris-Nice win and the Dauphiné triumph – he details the changes taking pla