Bradley Wiggins discusses the sacrifices he made to win the 2012 Tour de France and Olympic gold. He recounts having to ignore his 5-year-old daughter as he prepared for the London 2012 time-trial.
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was it hard having because you both had kids through throughout your careers right it’s a silly question was it hard of course it was hard
it’s hard yeah but at the same time um that was part of the sacrifice of not having them around because you’re really focused on what you’re doing when I came back from the tour to France in 2012 and I’d won it obviously I didn’t see the kids for a month or so and I had to go straight to the Olympics in London and that the famous story of me walking from the hotel in the morning to the start ramp and I had to ignore my 5-year-old daughter at the time who saw me and said daddy and it was and I had to ignore her and that broke my heart and as well as hers you know but I was going to start the race of my life you know in London time travel but you know and she still remembers it to this day you know it’s things like that that make you realize what is important but at the same time you’re there to do a job and while you’re while you’re focusing on that job you can’t let the two interact with each other
hopefully in time there’s a disappointment there for a young girl but then in time you realize your father is showing you the sacrifices
yeah there is that and and it’s also not something that’s going to happen on a regular basis of you know like you know that that things like that once I started noticing things like that and I realized you know there was only so many birthdays and things I wanted to miss that that was enough for me i didn’t want to go away and win another five tour of Frances and be away for months on end