Well as a sporting achievement, it’s mightily impressive. But as a TV event, it passed me by completely.
What you want from a sporting contest – drama, controversy, swaying emotions and an unknown outcome – were largely missing. Wiggins actually lived close to me during his school days. I can’t recall ever coming across him – I think I would have remembered a lyrca-clad youngster dodging traffic on Kilburn High Road. Unless you’ve lived under a stone for the last few years, you wouldn’t have missed his much repeated catchphrase that ‘Kids from Kilburn aren’t supposed to win the Tour de France’. I would actually claim that his nan’s house where he lived during his school days is actually closer to affluent Maida Vale but I guess ‘middle class privately educated boy winning the tour’ would not have the same ring to it.
