Early Life
Wiggins was born in 1980 in Ghent, Belgium, to English mother Linda and Australian father Gary Wiggins, who was based in Belgium as a professional cyclist. His father left the family when Bradley was two years old, and Bradley moved to London with his mother to stay with her parents in the Dibdin House estate in Maida Vale. He has a younger brother, Ryan.
Linda was a school secretary at St Augustine's Church of England High School, a voluntary aided state comprehensive school in Kilburn, North London, which Bradley attended. At age 12 he raced on the unopened A312 dual carriageway in Hayes, Middlesex, the Herne Hill Velodrome and the circuits at Crystal Palace and Eastway in London. "At 12", he recalled in an interview, "I told my art teacher, I’m going to be Olympic champion, I’m going to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour." He represented Camden in the London Youth Games as a teenager, and in 2010 he was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame.
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