Wiggins sheds light on sexual abuse and drug problems, accuses Sky of throwing him under the bus
As revealed in a story in The Sunday Times, Bradley Wiggins recounts further details of the sexual abuse he suffered as a teenager at the hands of his cycling coach and also expounds on his struggles with drug addiction in his new book "The Chain." In Friday's interview, he also criticized his former team, which is now known as the Ineos Grenadiers.
In the book, set to be released on October 23, Wiggins reportedly describes an incident in which he became sick and then woke up naked with no memory of having taken his clothes off, leading him to believe that his coach Stan Knight had drugged him. The 2012 Tour de France winner says that another member of the cycling club had a similar experience.
Wiggins' new book also describes his more recent struggles with drug addiction. As the headline of The Sunday Times story notes, he admits to having snorted cocaine off of his Olympic gold medal during a particularly troubled stretch.
In the story in The Sunday Times, Wiggins again denied wrongdoing amid doping allegations, which continue to plague his former team, but he also said that "there was something greater going on." He claimed that the organization, then called Team Sky and now known as the Ineos Grenadiers, "chucked [him] under a bus." [The Sunday Times]
