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Video: Sir Bradley Wiggins and The Chicken Song goes viral

Fastest man on a bike over an hour gets interrupted while trying to enjoy fast food

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the Spitting Image TV show's hit single, The Chicken Song. Well, five-time Olympic gold medallist and 2012 Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins got his own version of that on Tuesday, when he posted a video to social media that showed his reaction to a waiter bursting into song while he was trying to finish his chicken meal.

With nearly 200 retweets and more than 500 likes on Twitter, the former Team Sky rider's tweeted video went viral - though happily, not in a Bird Flu kind of way.

His face is a picture, though.

If Spitting Image were still around today, given his sporting profile, it's likely a likeness of Wiggins would have popped up on the show at some point.

We'll just have to remember Gazza's tears instead.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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brooksby | 6 years ago
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Oh - that Chicken Song!

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me | 6 years ago
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Does eating fast food where you've no idea of the ingredients give some form of plausible deniability if it's needed for anything?  Just askin'  1

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Jackson replied to me | 6 years ago
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me wrote:

Does eating fast food where you've no idea of the ingredients give some form of plausible deniability if it's needed for anything?  Just askin'  1

Depends. If you're Mick Rogers from Team Sky then the UCI will happily buy the dodgy burger excuse. If you're a Spaniard named Alberto they won't, and it'll cost you a Tour, a Giro and a two-year ban. 

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3mkru73 | 6 years ago
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That chicken better be peng! 

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bendertherobot | 6 years ago
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I doubt he'll be back, or hurry back, perhaps he'll take it back home to eat.

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Man of Lard | 6 years ago
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Is it too hard to record in landscape?

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nappe | 6 years ago
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Never noticed it before, but, Chuck Norris?

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Nick T | 6 years ago
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What a big shoehorn you have

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