Wiggins to compete in rowing event

Five-time olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins will return to competition next month after swapping his bike for an indoor rowing machine. British Rowing announced Wiggins will compete over 2,000 metres in the British Rowing Indoor Championships on 9 December at the Lee Valley Velopark.

Wiggins this week broke his silence on UK Antidoping’s investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in cycling, saying it has provoked a “malicious witch hunt” that has been a “living hell” for his family.

In a statement posted on his social media pages, Wiggins welcomed Wednesday’s announcement by UKAD that it was closing a 14-month investigation into a package which was delivered to his team doctor at the end of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine race in France.

Wiggins retired from cycling in December 2016. He has previously floated the idea of going to a sixth Olympics, aged 40, in a different sport.