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Sir Bradley Wiggins on The Jump (source Channel 4, cropped).PNGBroken leg forces Sir Bradley Wiggins out of The Jump
Sir Bradley Wiggins is out of winter sports reality TV show The Jump after breaking his leg.
The five-time Olympic gold medallist and 2012 Tour de France winner revealed on Twitter that he had left the show.
He said: “Gutted to be leaving The Jump. I wanted to give you an injury update …
“Seen a specialist, I have a small leg fracture & need to rest for 3/6 weeks. Good news no surgery or cast required.
"Huge thanks to the crew & good luck to all of the cast. Due to the way the show is filmed I’ll still be on until show 4, so tune in.
“No horror smash, small training injury which means I can’t compete. No terrible break, no cast, just need to rest it.”
Wiggins had already injured a foot and torn a calf muscle while taking part in the show, which is filmed in the Austrian Alps.
Last week, it was reported that he was taking painkillers to be able to continue to compete.
> Wiggins on painkillers due to injury while filming The Jump
The Jump, now in its fourth season, has developed something of a reputation for the serious injuries some participants sustain while filming.
Holby City actress Tina Hobley spent most of 2016 on crutches after sustaining knee, shoulder and arm injuries while practicing a jump ahead during last year’s series.
Last June, London 2012 bronze medal-winning gymnast Beth Tweddle revealed she was seeing a psychologist after breaking two vertebrae while filming for the third series of the show.
Former Olympic champion swimmer Rebecca Adlington also sustained a serious injury during last year’s show, dislocating her shoulder.
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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Pics or it didn't happen. It's not a proper broken leg unless titanium is involved.
Think you're quite close to the truth. He describes it as a 'small fracture' and it doesn't need a cast. Which suggests to me it could be more like a chip. Any medical bods care to comment?
My broken arm needed no cast as the small (but bastard painful) fracture was nice and clean. 6 weeks to ride again and longer to fully straighten.
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Casts, pins, plates etc all do essentially the same job. They hold the two sides of the fracture in the right position to allow it to heal correctly.
If you have a non displaced and stable fracture, that is the bones have not moved and are unlikely to move, you don't need any device to hold them in place, you just need to rest and wait for it to heal.
Yeah, try running a 5k as fast as you can out of the blue when your cycling fitness is at its peak this summer.
Probably have a heart attack with your 9min per mile pace! If you don't do impact sports your body loses the ability to deal with impacts. Bone density can even get reduced. Cyclists should definitely throw in a weekly jog IMO.
No jogging, try judo, where you can really throw yourself and your partner.
Odd how probably the most physically gifted of the lot goes out almost straight away.
So what next for Sir Bradley? Dancing, bake offs, family fortunes?
If I was him I'd start a troll YouTube channel where he goes out wearing all the 'wrong' clothes on a Halfords Apollo or some BSO and trolls weekend warriors on F8s and the like.
I think cycling fitness is pretty specialist and niche.
When you're looking at all-rounders, I'd pick pretty much every other sporting type this year (gymnast, rugbyers, taekwondoist, maybe not the footballer but Fowler was never your typical athletic premier leaguer) as better-suited to a set of new winter sports.
Injury aside, given how uncomfortable Wiggo has seemed in front of the camera away from the cycling, I hope he doesn't repeat this in a hurry. I think cycling media preparedness is pretty specialist and niche too. He's had them in the palm of his hand - in two languages - when on top of the world in his domain, and where the press are used to dealing with people who've just banged out 5 hours on a bike for the 8th day straight.
No surprises that dedicating your career to being a bloody-minded loner doesn't appear to be the best preparation for a move into acting the prat in front of a camera, and he seems to be worryingly self-critical when he's not acing everything.
Cor blimey Imagine the TUE's he could have got for a broken Ankle rather than just "hayfever", he could have won the Veulta, Giro and Tour Of France in one year.
I have no real idea how this show progresses, but I imagine they all start out as rubbish and get better to the final.. I'd have liked to have seen him win it, if only to champion cycling over other sports and bit-celebrities! However as he's out of it now this really is a bit of a non-story... maybe the BW news will calm down a bit now....
I watched last night and actually enjoyed it more than I expected.
When you have Alfie talking about his battered arse then the commentator saying him and Robbo have double-teamed Spencer? I was laughing my head off.
Total non-surprise Wiggins got hurt when he wasn't committing himself though.
I managed to catch about fifty seconds of The Jump on the TV over the weekend, before having to switch channels to something less culturally vaccuous, in order to stave off the impulse to vomit. Of course Wiggins is free to do what he wants. I'm not out to condemn him (for this, at least.) I'm just nostalgic for the period when celebrities could go on a skiing holiday without feeling the need to tell the world about it. And when Channel 4 produced mould-breaking drama, biting satire, innovative late night discussion shows, and brought niche sports like cycling to television audiences for the first time.
Well you watched 50 seconds more than me...
Ahhh nostalgia, it ain't what it used to be!
Nah, I always think of C4 as bringing porn to the masses. I was always up for one of those red triangle films