The five -time Olympic champion made this allegation in a magazine interview Men’s Health UK. However, he did not identify his attacker.

I was attacked by a trainer when I was young. I was about 13 and never accepted that fact said Wiggins, now 41 and retired from the sport since 2016. Asked if he was hit, the 2012 Tour de France winner replied: Yes. And all of that affected me as an adult. I hid it inside me , prefers not to talk about it because of their difficult relationship with her stepfather. Wiggins had previously mentioned his difficult childhood. Her story includes the fact that her father Gary Wiggins, a former Australian -born cyclist who died in 2008, abandoned his family. Wiggins is one of Britain’s most decorated Olympians with three individual and two team gold medals, the latter at the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016. He has eight Olympic medals.