Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner and Olympic TT champion, and his wife Cath have announced they have decided to separate after 16 years of marriage.
They took so social media late last night to announce the news in a brief Tweet saying it was a decision they had both taken with sadness.
“It is with deep sadness my wife Cath
and I have decided to separate. Our two children remain our priority and we ask
for privacy at this time,” the Tweet stated and which was signed by “Brad and
Cath”.
Wiggins is Britain's most successful ever Olympian, with five golds among a total of eight medals, and is a seven-time elite world champion on the track as well as a former world TT champion.
He retired from racing in 2016 after winning gold in the team pursuit at the Rio Olympics and has been working at times as a cycling media pundit.
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In
2016 the Fancy Bears Russian hacker team hacked WADA’s records. It emerged Wiggins
had taken corticosteroid under TUEs in 2011, 2012 and 2013 just before Grand
Tours. That included the 2012 Tour which he won.
Wiggins
broke no rules as the TUEs were approved and sanctioned in the proper way,
though news of his TUEs caused controversy.
Allegations also emerged around the same time that a “jiffy bag” was delivered to Team Sky on the final day of the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné.
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It
was alleged, by anonymous sources, that the bag contained a medical product.
Team Sky had no record of what was in the bag but insisted it was an over the
counter decongestant.
No
evidence ever emerged that anything untoward or any banned substance was in the
bag.
“My kids have suffered,” Bradley Wiggins said of the controversies in an
interview in The Guardian published in 2018.
“We had to move schools and then all the stuff broke with Lance in 2013 and
the kids started getting it.
“People have free rein to put their own facts in place. Kids read headlines
and their parents say things about you.
“You end up saying to your kids: ‘Just tell them to fucking do one’. They do
and it’s your kids in trouble.
“Then the BBC show up on your doorstep and you can’t take your kids to
school. You tell the BBC, ‘I can’t talk to you, because there’s an
investigation’.
“They just want to know about the (jiffy bag) packages. The whole thing
becomes an uncontrolled trial by media. In any other court it would be thrown
out because the media have skewed the facts.
“You watch your family suffer, and it’s terrible. It nearly killed my wife.
She ended up in rehab over it. I’m at home having to deal with it.
“Because she’s bi-polar she has this fear of shame, people watching her all
the time,” he said of wife Cath. Though he added she was now doing well.
“You couldn’t say that at the time because you’ve asked for it, because
you’ve won the Tour de France. No, I didn’t ask for that actually. I only asked
for a fair trial.”
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