Hours when winning the Tour de France, Bradley Wiggins has came to London to start out making ready for the Olympics.
Wiggins created history on Sunday when he became the primary British man to win the gruelling race.
But it's a case of no rest for the winner - in 5 days’ time he are going to be back on the bike for the Olympic road race. And in 9 days, he are going to be favoured to win the time trial event he excels in.
He is already the bearer of six Olympic medals, 3 of them gold.
But for Wiggins, the Olympics could be a step down from the Tour.
"The Tour is that the final - additional thus than the Olympics. To be the winner of the Tour de France is that the final accolade in cycling."
But still, Wiggins says Britain is in with a "fantastic chance" for the Olympics.
"We have Olympics to assume about… on to subsequent factor currently," he said.
"We perpetually knew it, we have a tendency to planned for it. lots people are flying out [Sunday] evening."
After crossing the end line on Paris' Champs-Elysees, the 32-year-old said: "Job done."
Prime Minister David Cameron led the congratulations, describing Wiggins' victory as an "immense feat of physical and mental ability".
Wiggins' victory propels him into the league of 1 of Britain's greatest sportsmen with needs him to be knighted.
Supporters at Herne Hill Velodrome, in south east London, where he began racing as a boy, celebrated his result, with one describing how she remembered the young Wiggins telling her he would in the future win the Tour de France.
"When he was concerning twelve he would tell everybody that he was reaching to win the Tour de France and here we have a tendency to go, he was right," said Jan Slater, 74, from Forest Hill, south east London.
The final stage was the thirteenth consecutive day that he had worn the race leader's yellow jersey within the 99th edition of the gruelling twenty stage, 3,497 kilometre race.
He completed the day 3 minutes and twenty one seconds earlier than Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, who became solely the second Briton to require the arena within the history of the event.
Their team-mate and fellow Brit Mark Cavendish won the ultimate stage of the race into Paris when powering to the front in his rainbow jersey four hundred metres from the road.
Wiggins created history on Sunday when he became the primary British man to win the gruelling race.
But it's a case of no rest for the winner - in 5 days’ time he are going to be back on the bike for the Olympic road race. And in 9 days, he are going to be favoured to win the time trial event he excels in.
He is already the bearer of six Olympic medals, 3 of them gold.
But for Wiggins, the Olympics could be a step down from the Tour.
"The Tour is that the final - additional thus than the Olympics. To be the winner of the Tour de France is that the final accolade in cycling."
But still, Wiggins says Britain is in with a "fantastic chance" for the Olympics.
"We have Olympics to assume about… on to subsequent factor currently," he said.
"We perpetually knew it, we have a tendency to planned for it. lots people are flying out [Sunday] evening."
After crossing the end line on Paris' Champs-Elysees, the 32-year-old said: "Job done."
Prime Minister David Cameron led the congratulations, describing Wiggins' victory as an "immense feat of physical and mental ability".
Wiggins' victory propels him into the league of 1 of Britain's greatest sportsmen with needs him to be knighted.
Supporters at Herne Hill Velodrome, in south east London, where he began racing as a boy, celebrated his result, with one describing how she remembered the young Wiggins telling her he would in the future win the Tour de France.
"When he was concerning twelve he would tell everybody that he was reaching to win the Tour de France and here we have a tendency to go, he was right," said Jan Slater, 74, from Forest Hill, south east London.
The final stage was the thirteenth consecutive day that he had worn the race leader's yellow jersey within the 99th edition of the gruelling twenty stage, 3,497 kilometre race.
He completed the day 3 minutes and twenty one seconds earlier than Team Sky colleague Chris Froome, who became solely the second Briton to require the arena within the history of the event.
Their team-mate and fellow Brit Mark Cavendish won the ultimate stage of the race into Paris when powering to the front in his rainbow jersey four hundred metres from the road.
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