{"id":249032,"date":"2025-11-07T09:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249032\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T09:26:10","slug":"team-gb-legend-sir-bradley-wiggins-checks-into-rehab-clinic-thanks-to-controversial-former-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/249032\/","title":{"rendered":"Team GB legend Sir Bradley Wiggins checks into rehab clinic &#8211; thanks to controversial former star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       7 Nov 2025, 00:28 Updated: 2h ago        <\/p>\n<p class=\"_abstract_fr03p_64\">The former Olympic gold medalist revealed he will fly out to the US for treatment<\/p>\n<p> 7 Nov 2025, 00:28  | Updated: 2h ago <\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sir Bradley Wiggins\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"766823\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/766823\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Sir Bradley Wiggins has revealed he will fly out to the US for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/license\/1474224330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nGetty<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Sir Bradley Wiggins is checking into a top rehab centre for trauma conselling with help from former cyclist Lance Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Olympic gold medalist Wiggins revealed the disgraced champion is helping him get back to his feet after battles with drunk addiction and bankruptcy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The pair became friends while coming up against each other at events across their careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">According to The Sun, Wiggins revealed he is due to travel to the US on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/significant-hooliganism-maccabi-villa-ban\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six arrested ahead of Villa Park clash &#8211; as police say &#8216;significant hooliganism&#8217; among Maccabi Tel Aviv fans behind ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/politics\/uk-politics\/culture-secretary-apologises-after-being-found-to-have-breached-government-code\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Nandy rapped by ethics chief after appointing campaign donor as football regulator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Lance Armstrong is paying for Wiggins to check into a top trauma clinic in Utah.\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"766798\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/766798\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Lance Armstrong is paying for Wiggins to check into a top trauma clinic in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-18-may-202-678651144.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">During a talk at the Barbican in York on Wednesday, he said of Lance: &#8220;I still speak to him and see him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;I\u2019m\u00a0off to America on Friday.\u00a0He&#8217;s\u00a0paid for me to\u00a0go and see\u00a0a top trauma counselling clinic in Utah so\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0looking forward to that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;He&#8217;s offered me a role back in cycling, a platform which doesn&#8217;t involve me getting on a bike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Wiggins rose to fame as the first Briton to win the Tour de France, but has since experienced persistent financial difficulties with his business ventures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He won eight Olympic medals including five gold, before retiring in 2016. But it was revealed in the summer that he was declared bankrupt by a court.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sir Bradley Wiggins Speaks At The Cambridge Union\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"766824\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/766824\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Sir Bradley Wiggins Speaks At The Cambridge Union.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/license\/1474224398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nGetty<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He has also opened up on struggles with substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He previously said: &#8220;I smashed up my 2012 trophy for Sports Personality of the Year and my knighthood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;I did that in front of my kids. No wonder they talked about trying to put me in rehab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Armstrong, 54, hired Bradley on his &#8216;Move&#8217; podcast last year to cover the Tour de France and the pair worked on the same channel this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The American faced controversy during his own career, being stripped of all seven of his Tour de France yellow jerseys after he admitted doping during a 2013 interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7 Nov 2025, 00:28 Updated: 2h ago The former Olympic gold medalist revealed he will fly out to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-249032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}