Bradley Wiggins will next be on the TV screen in a celebrity reality show, though has insisted he is not a celebrity. Above, contestants from last year's series of The Jump.
Having only just confirmed his retirement from competitive cycling, Bradley Wiggins is (literally) not letting the grass grow under his feet.
The 2012 Tour de France champion, currently embroiled in controversy of over the permitted medicines he took while racing, has signed up for the British reality TV show ‘The Jump’.
It features celebrity contestants who compete against each other in ski jumping and other related events.
A host of decorated sports stars have signed up for the show in the past, though some of them have been badly injured when jumps went wrong.
Wiggins said he was really looking forward to the challenge and wanted to win the show.
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“Skiing is a big passion of mine, it was a mix of that and the other committed names this year that made me want to sign up,” Wiggins said.
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“Major retiring Olympians such as Sir Steve Redgrave have also trod this path, I see this as a sporting challenge and want to go out there and win it. Just don’t call me a celebrity.”
The show is broadcast on Channel 4, though the start date has not yet been set.
Along with Wiggins, the group of contestants includes for top sports stars to minor reality TV celebrities.
The other sports stars set for this year’s series include: rugby’s Jason Robinson, soccer’s Robbie Fowler, Olympic gymnast Louise Smith, multi sport Paralympian Kadeena Cox and Olympic Taekwondo gold medalist Jade Jones.
Last year seven contestants had to leave the show on health grounds. The worst injury was to Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle who damaged two vertebrate and needed surgery.
Wiggins winning the Tour in 2012. He has now retired but still faces questions of a legal mucus-clearing medicine delivered to his doctor on a race and has been criticised for availing of TUEs before key events, but has insisted they were needed for treating his hay fever.
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