“I was groomed by a coach when I was younger – I was about 13 – and I never fully accepted that.”
British Cycling has offered its “full support” to Sir Bradley Wiggins after he revealed he was sexually groomed by a coach when he was 13 years old.
Asked if he was groomed sexually, Wiggins added: “Yes. It all impacted me as an adult… I buried it. My stepfather was quite violent to me, he used to call me a f****t for wearing Lycra and stuff, so I didn’t think I could tell him. “We are deeply concerned by the matter raised by Sir Bradley Wiggins and our safeguarding team has made contact with him today to offer our full support,” the statement read.
NSPCC’s head of child protection in sport Michelle North said Wiggins had shown “real bravery” in speaking up and added that his experience showed the need for sporting club and bodies at all levels to be subject to “robust” safeguarding. “It was definitely to do with my dad,” Wiggins told Men’s Health when asked what he had tried to run from in his life.
Though he had further successes – winning the world time trial in 2014 and a third Olympic team pursuit gold in 2016 – Wiggins said 2012 was the year he stopped enjoying professional cycling.
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