Five-time Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins says he was groomed by a coach when he was a child, and that he “buried it”.
Briton Wiggins, 41, claimed Olympic gold medals on the Athens, Beijing, London and Rio Games, and likewise gained the 2012 Tour, earlier than retiring in 2016.
In an interview with Men’s Health UK, he stated: “I was groomed by a coach once I was youthful – I was about 13 – and I by no means absolutely accepted that.”
He didn’t identify the abuser.
Wiggins speaks to columnist Alastair Campbell within the May subject of the journal.
Asked whether or not he had been “groomed sexually” by the coach, he replied: “Yes. It all impacted me as an grownup… I buried it.”
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