Dismayed by the news that one of Britain’s greatest ever Olympians had been declared bankrupt, I had been trying all week to contact Sir Bradley Wiggins and hear his side of this sorry story.
Puzzlingly, he wasn’t to be found at either of the addresses in Lancashire which he gave to court: an elegantly converted barn in the North Lancashire countryside and a redbrick semi 20 miles away, in the resort of Lytham St Annes.
Yesterday, when the great Olympian’s lawyer Alan Sellers finally contacted me, he explained the shocking reasons for this.
The £975,000 barn that Sir Bradley once shared with his ex-wife Cath and their three children had been repossessed by a building society and sold a few months ago. As for the semi, that had been…
