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...This became possible even when, as between Sir Bradley and Froome, there were tensions along the way....
...Bradley Wiggins was there for a while. David Millar never left. Girona stayed pretty sleepy — a secret, almost — but in the past few years its cycling scene has erupted....
...This year, a UK parliamentary report accused Sky of manipulating anti-doping rules for its athletes, including Sir Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour winner, a charge strongly denied by the team....
...Cycling was hurt by Lance Armstrong, the drug-taking Tour de France champion, and Team Sky’s mission became “winning clean”....
...On Wednesday Lance Batchelor, chief executive, said that would change. He said profits from travel would be four or five times higher in five years’ time than the £15m produced last year....
...Many Olympic riders graduated to the professional road team including Sir Bradley Wiggins who, in 2012, won the Tour....
...“We want to get away from the image that electric cars are kooky,” says Lance Bradley, head of Mitsubishi’s UK business....
...Archive of Pantani speaking and competing, and interviews with family and colleagues (Bradley Wiggins is sweetly admiring) build a picture of a thoughtful man, probably in the grip of drugs of all kinds...
...It is the first since Lance Armstrong of the US, a seven-time consecutive winner, admitted he had used performance-enhancing drugs and was stripped of his titles....
...It began this year in the shadow of the admission by Lance Armstrong of US, seven time winner, that he had used performance-enhancing drugs. Some French media dubbed Froome ‘Froomstrong’....
...It may look like the end of the road for Lance Armstrong’s reputation....
...“It’s Bradley Wiggins’ bike,” says Mr Kirk. It is a more fitting token. Last year was not just good for British cyclists....
...But that, it continued, was before Bradley Wiggins reintroduced his countrymen to the joys of the Tour de France. In return, Libération remarked: “They are re-teaching us how to pedal.”...
...When Bradley Wiggins last week launched an expletive-filled attack on internet gossips alleging that he takes performance-enhancing drugs, his fruity language detracted from the real paradox presented by...
...Bradley Wiggins starts this year’s Tour de France on Saturday as the first British pre-race favourite....
...Christopher Bradley-Hole used it to devastating effect in his 2004 Chelsea Garden, Hortus Conclusus, where he combined S gigantea with shrub roses....
...Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong, by David Walsh, Simon & Schuster, RRP£18.99 Walsh, a Sunday Times journalist, hounded Armstrong and was hounded by him for years....
...Among them are Frank Schleck, brother to Andy, Australia’s Cadel Evans, the current world champion, and Briton Bradley Wiggins, who came a surprise fourth last year....
...Today, Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins are leading riders on the world stage, while a London barista, Gwilym Davies, was last year’s world champion at the coffee industry’s top competition....
...Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins falls into this category, as do the two Tour favourites, Spain’s Alberto Contador of the Saxo Bank-SunGard team and Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck of Leopard Trek....
...The challenge steps up a gear next week, when they race in Australia’s Tour Down Under, lining up next to stars including Lance Armstrong, winner of a record seven Tours de France....
...But for his fans, including fellow cyclist Bradley Wiggins, it was hard to take. “We all looked up to him,” he says....
...Bradley Wiggins defends the individual pursuit title, but Mark Cavendish may do it too, as well as the Madison, for which he and Wiggins are also favourite....
...But the controversy surrounding Lance continued....
...In Millar and rival Bradley Wiggins, the Olympic gold medallist, Britain has two of the five most likely prologue winners....
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