Bradley Wiggins: 'I wasn't prepared for fame

“No-one can prepare you for success,” Bradley Wiggins says, and there is a certain melancholy in his voice. There is a lesson in there, and four years ago it was a lesson he learned the hard way.

This is the story of how Britain’s greatest cyclist got his life back.

Now 36 years old, Wiggins ispreparing for one last tilt at the Olympic Games. But the Wiggins of the popular imagination is still the Wiggins of 2012: a year when he was the grinning face of the most remarkable sporting year in this country’s history.