Folk can make their own minds up on whether Sir Bradley Wiggins is a reliable witness, but he has always been good for a line about Sir Dave Brailsford. They share a complicated history, of course, but one of Wiggins’s remarks a few years back warrants another airing.
‘He’s like the messiah reborn, with a halo around his head,’ Wiggins would say during a speaking tour in 2018, and his sarcasm brought to the surface by what he added next: ‘I can’t describe him without swearing. Mark Cavendish summed him up when he said, “If you walked in on him and your wife in bed, he’d make you think it was your idea”.