Your initiall point was… valid
That whether your a good cop or bad cop you need to come across as though you want to be there, Wiggins didnt… Im all for mavericks, history tells us that there is no such thing as bad news, only news, and the same goes for PR. Some of the hardest riders have made the greatest legends we all remember Fignon, Hinault, Cipo and the rest for their ‘fighting talk’, but we also remember them for the results – the other stuff was a side show, and they knew it. Let Cav call whoever, whatever he wants, lets have people fighting on the finish line, lets have blood, sweat and tears and lets have the good guys just winning and going about their business (Sastre,Kelly, Ludwig, Schmil) . Then they can all write their books and make legends Wiggo reminds me of the Catherine Tate schoolgirl (sorry cant remember her name) more and more each time I see him. I just wish he could be more bovvered.
I agree… with pretty much all of that.
The only point at which I might diverge is that it depends what rWiggins isn’t bothered about: is it cycling, or all the sideshow stuff like SPOTY? If it’s the former then he has a problem.
If it’s the latter, well… you could ask why he bothered turning up at all, maybe he was contractually obliged to. He was probably all too aware that he was simply on the list to make up the numbers. Cavendish should have been on the list too – maybe at Wiggins’, Victoria Pendleton’s or Rebecca Romero’s expense. He wouldn’t have won, but not necessarily because he’s an arrogant sod (plenty of them have won in the past I’m sure), but because the majority of the people that voted don’t know enough about road cycling to understand the scale of his achievement.
If it was down purely to sporting achievement though I think Cooke should have won it, an Olympic Gold and a World Championship on the road is pretty awesome.
Either way though the really big plus of the whole event is surely that between them the cyclists accounted for more than fifty per cent of the total vote.