Sir Bradley Wiggins has backed a plan to teach a million people to spot the signs of child abuse as he revealed he stayed quiet about suffering sexual abuse because he feared competitors would consider him weak.
The five-time Olympic gold medallist and 2012 Tour de France champion said he was abused by a cycling coach between the ages of 13 and 16 but “this was something I was never going to talk about during my career” and instead he “swept it under the carpet”.
