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robert on bradley

the following interview was first published in the observer newspaper on sunday 26th july 2009, the very day the tour de france finished on the champs elysees in paris with britain's bradley wiggins in fourth place overall. since this equals robert's fourth place in the 1984 tour, william fotheringham asked robert for his views on wiggins' performance. due to the nature of print publications, robert's answers were slightly edited, presumably due to space restrictions.

happily, thewashingmachinepost has no such space restrictions, so with the permission of both mr millar and mr fotheringham (to whom i am extremely grateful), i reproduce the interview in full.

Before the Tour, would you have thought your British record of 4th place overall would be threatened by Wiggins?

No, not at all. Bradley had been a talented track rider, but the teams he had been with up until now hadn't helped him realise that he might have career on the road too. Maybe he didn't realise that either.

Are you surprised by what he's done? (did you think he had this in him?)