IN a crowded British sporting summer, the biggest achievement of them all may be about to unfold over 21 days and 3497km of winding continental roads.
IN a crowded British sporting summer, the biggest achievement of them all may be about to unfold over 21 days and 3497km of winding continental roads.
Bradley Wiggins gets off to a good start, finishing second in the prologue Photograph: Getty
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Stewart Fisher
Never in the 104-year history of the Tour de France has a British rider returned across the channel with the maillot jaune but 2012 has been scheduled as the year Bradley Wiggins changes all that.
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