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See this as well: https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviews/5551/review-an-evening-with-bradley-wiggins
Dear me, he really is a complete and utter twat, isn't he?
Nice attitude there, Wiggo. I'm sure your bitterness has nothing to do with the fact that you went into rowing with an overconfident, entitled attitude and allowed the whole thing to get way overhyped, only to fail spectacularly while also looking like a complete tool. With a result, by the way, that I was personally able to beat.
There are tons of efforts out there to make rowing as accessible as possible, but if people keep telling everybody that it is supposed to be incredibly elitist and that "you had to have been to the right schools", that is not helpful. My interpretation of this is that he was not very popular with some of the actual GB trialists out there - not because he went to the wrong school, but because he's just, well, quite a big twat.