Bradley Wiggins: The Dark Truth I Carried Through My Cycling Career & Finding New Purpose
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Sir Bradley Wiggins is a British cycling legend, known for his incredible achievements, including winning the Tour de France and multiple Olympic medals. But behind the accolades, there’s a person who’s experienced both triumphs and personal struggles that shaped who he is today.
In this episode, Bradley opens up to Jake and Damian about the turning points that sparked his journey toward taking responsibility for his life. He reflects on the pivotal moments that led him to a place of greater self-awareness and how he found a better place emotionally and mentally. He also reveals the insights and lessons that have helped him along the way, offering a look into his process of self-recognition.
Reflecting on his childhood, Bradley dives into the emotional struggles and tragedies he faced while balancing personal hardships with the relentless demands of a high-pressure career. He shares deeply personal reflections on his relationship with his father, revealing how those early experiences shaped his life and continue to influence his approach to fatherhood.
This episode provides an intimate look into the mind of a champion, combining powerful stories with valuable insights on family, trust, and personal growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't forget, you can also watch our newest episodes before anyone else on the high performance app. |
| 0:05.0 | We've just dropped Brentford manager, Thomas Frank, on the high performance app. |
| 0:10.0 | If I could go up and execute Olympic finals like that, I mean, I did it. I don't know how many, I did five, six. |
| 0:17.0 | I've experienced extreme highs with my success. But I've also experienced, like most of us, |
| 0:21.7 | the other end of the spectrum. I was in a very dark place, in a very dark room for many days. |
| 0:27.5 | It's what we do is the things that happen to us, that shape us, that make us the people we are. |
| 0:33.1 | There's no time like the present to start being the person you want to be. |
| 0:39.2 | That is one of Britain's most decorated Olympians, Sir Bradley Wiggins, who joins us today for this exclusive conversation |
| 0:45.0 | on high performance. I'm Jay Cunfrey and together with Damien Hughes. We explore how high |
| 0:50.2 | performing people reach the incredible heights they do, what drives them to do so, but also |
| 0:55.6 | in today's conversation, the pain that sometimes lies behind the success. |
| 1:00.0 | Bradley's a guest we've been trying to speak to on this show for a very long time. |
| 1:04.0 | Through his cycling career, he won an incredible late medal, and in 2012 he wrote his name |
| 1:08.7 | in the history books by becoming the first Britain to ever win the Tour de France. |
| 1:13.7 | He joined us live on stage at an event we held recently in London with our partners for her, |
| 1:19.2 | for this deeply moving, personal and profound conversation. |
| 1:23.6 | So what are you going to hear then from Bradley? |
| 1:25.7 | Well, you'll hear him talk about how his motivation for |
| 1:28.3 | success actually came through struggle and trauma from the extraordinary adversity he's faced |
| 1:33.3 | throughout his life, from the abandonment he dealt with in early childhood, the difficult relationship |
| 1:37.7 | with his father who was eventually murdered, to the sexual abuse that he suffered as a young |
| 1:43.4 | cyclist trying to make his way |
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