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The wife of Brit cyclist Bradley Wiggins has promised to strip off and run down the finishing straight when her hubby takes the Tour de France title.

Wiggins, 32, is set to become the first Brit to win the world’s most gruelling bike race after dominating the 2,000 mile plus event with juggernauts Team Sky.

And his adoring missus Cath Wiggins may now regret telling a pal on Twitter: “I’ll be running down it [the Champs Elysees] with just a Mod target over my privates if he does it!”

Her cyclist husband, who idolises Paul Weller and has a passion for Mod clothes and music, will walk into the record books after hitting rock bottom just two years ago.

The triple Olympic champ, who has two children Ben, 5 and Isabella, 3, with wife Cath, finished a disappointing 24th in the 2010 race.

Wiggins, who lives in Ecclestone, Lancs, with his family, confessed he had enjoyed “the dinners and the adulation, and basically getting drunk everywhere I went” and lost focus on his sport.

In his autobiography, Buy In Pursuit Of Glory, the cyclist revealed his late father Garry, also a professional cyclist, was a drug dealer and an alcoholic.

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And the champ, who met wife Cath in a Manchester nightclub when he was worse for wear, feared he had inherited his dad’s “drinking genes” and continued to binge even after he settled down.

But thankfully Wiggins turned his back on booze two years ago and with the help of experts at Team Sky, including mind guru Dr Steve Peters and head of performance science Tim Kerrison, undertook a new, gruelling training regime.

Since then, he has won every race going.

He said: “I have trained constantly through the year, not the traditional way for cycling. It is trying to be at least 97 per cent all year and constantly working.

“The only downside is that it’s mentally difficult.”

The cyclist, who wears race number 101, will pick up £350,000 in prize money for finishing first - but he won’t see a penny of it. In keeping with tradition Wiggins will split the cash among his team of eight men, including wingman Chris Froome who will/has finished second.

Froome, 27, has been credited with supporting the champ in his quest for glory but a grumbling rivalry has grown as the competition heated up.

And off the road a war of words on Twitter started between his partner Michelle Cound and Wiggin’s wife Cath.

Upset at her man being ordered to hold back during stage 11 of the race, South African sports photographer Michelle tweeted: “If you want loyalty, get a Froome dog... a quality I value... although being taken advantage of by others”.

Cath hit back by praising two other members of the Sky Team and omitting Froome – which Michelle then dubbed “typical”.

The tweets were later deleted.

But Wiggins continued his quest for glory unruffled, with his astonishing performances and courteous behaviour on the road leading to him being dubbed “Le Gentleman Wiggins” by French papers.

His actions included slowing down the pack of cyclists when a teammate’s tyre was punctured by a saboteur.

Wiggins, who revealed in his autobiography he had little interest in school, fell in love with cycling after seeing Chris Boardman take gold in the 4km pursuit at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

The cyclist, who rides a £9,999 Pinarello Dogma 2 bike weighing just 15lb 7oz, will take to the podium in Paris today cheered by hundreds of thousands of fans.

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