Bradley: Good-knight Olympics, hello family

AFTER cycling into history as Britain’s greatest ever Olympian, Sir Bradley Wiggins says he has competed at his last Games and will focus on family.

The cycling legend, 36, re revealed: “I’m not doing Tokyo in 2020. My kids need a proper dad in their lives and m my wife needs a proper husband. “I wanted it to end like this, not some crappy little race in the rain in north northern France. It’s nice that it’s finallyfinal over and it’s a relief more than anything.

“I take my mind back to Sydney in 2000 and what that meant to me as a 20-year-old,20 wandering around and seeing Ste Steve Redgrave win his fifth gold medal, th thinking how incredible it was.

“I’d co come away with a bronze medal and I thought if that was it I could go and get a job on the Monday morning and say I’d got Olympic bronze.”

But after his Rio victory in the team pursuit took his total haul of Olympic medals to eight – including five golds – Sir Bradley told how he will divert his attention to wife Cathy, 34, and kids Ben, 11, and Isabella, nine.

He posed for selfies following the race and hugged Cathy, who had flown out to watch his final Olympic event.

Sir Bradley explained why he stuck out his tongue as he stood for the National Anthem, saying it was “because I saw my stupid face on the big screen and I knew my kids would be watching on TV”.

His victory made him only the third Briton to have won five Olympic golds or more – drawing level with former rower Sir Steve Redgrave, with only ex-cyclist Sir Chris Hoy’s six eclipsing them.

Sir Steve said: “Bradley is as professional as you get in sport, just incredible. There’s nothing flash in the way he sets about the job. He just goes