Bradley Wiggins mentioned in a recent interview he looked set for a role around the Tour de France, though was unable to announce it at the time, and now seems he was referring to teaming up with Lance Armstrong.
Wiggins - who won the 2012 Tour after a availing of a therapeutic use exception for triamcinolone - is set to appear on the podcast with Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France wins and banned for life for doping.
Wiggins has joined the podcast team, it appears for at least the next week, to commentate on the race and offer his expert views about how the action is unfolding and what may happen next.
However, he also spoke about his life since retirement, saying when he stopped racing he took up rowing because he was "institutionalised" from training as a bike rider and needed to find a replacement. He said he then also put on weight and was smoking, but had since stopped.
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"I think I went through this transition period of realising both sides of the coin and, I'll tell you what, your mental health and everything is in a far better place than it used to be when you're working out every day," he said.
"It's also (about) finding a new equilibrium, a balance... that you feel like you have to do training... When I trained I'd always have to reach for the stars. So if I was doing something like rowing it was big, trying to go to the Olympic Games.
"And I've had to find a healthy balance now, where I can train but it doesn't have to be for something," he said, adding he had taken up boxing over the last year.
He had done that, partly face his fears, has he was not a confrontational person and it was about testing whether he could get into the ring for a boxing match.
