Wiggins: Tour de France win won't change me

Bradley Wiggins on podium, Tour de France 2012, stage 17

published 21 July 2012

Bradley Wiggins will join his heroes tomorrow in Paris. Barring any accident, he will become the first British winner of the Tour de France and cap off a record setting year.

"There are not many Tour winners when you look at the list. In my lifetime, in 32 years, there's probably only been 15 winners of the Tour. It's a very special list to be on," Wiggins said today.

"Robert Millar, Tom Simpson... I still never see myself up there with them. They were cult heroes and I looked up to them when I was a child," Wiggins continued. "They rarely raced in the UK like we do now, they lived in France, there wasn't the internet and I could only see them in cycling magazines. To be up there with Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and that. And now, barring any accident, I'll be up there."

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Wiggins: Tour de France win won't change me

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