Wiggins sets the perfect tone for London 2012 Bradley Wiggins' stylish triumph in the Tour de France brought the perfect prelude to the London Olympics.
Here was a victory that no one with a stake in London 2012 – not Lord Coe, not David Cameron, not even Boris Johnson or Tony Blair – could have scripted in their wildest dreams.
For a Briton, and a London native, to win the world's premier cycle race for the first time is a crowning personal achievement for Wiggins, but cannot but be hailed as a national success, too.
That it was a British one-two, with Chris Froome second, and Mark Cavendish winning the final stage, only made the victory sweeter.
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