Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

For Wiggins to say that he believes helmet wearing should be made compulsory by law means he can avoid offending those who have an agenda to make helmet wearing law. That is the meaning of political correctness, avoiding offense to those who, rightly or wrongly, have an agenda. Does Wiggins fear negative publicity (by causing offense) on the day he won gold for Britain, if he has any bloody sense he does.

That's how political correctness works. You have to say the right things otherwise those pursuing the particular agenda apply labels to you.

"Wiggins misses opportunity to take a stand on cycle safety" etc
Again, you're arbitrarily applying an arbitrarily defined label, and also seem to making some baseless assumptions about why Wiggins said what he did.

With such willful disingenuity, you should work for the BBC.

Oh, wait...