Wiggins stops bid to make British 2020 Olympic team in rowing - News Shorts

Bradley Wiggins has stopped his efforts to make the British Olympic team for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo in rowing, telling Eurosport on his eponymous show that he has too much to do.

"I'm still training every day, most days, with it. But I've decided that I'm not going for the Olympics because I've got too much other stuff to do," Wiggins told show host Adam Green.

"I need to give myself a break. I just haven't got time to train three times a day. To the level I want to do it to it's a full-time job in itself..."

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After retiring from cycling in 2016, the former Tour de France and Olympic champion on the road and track took up rowing but struggled to match the power of athletes who were much larger. When Wiggins won the Tour in 2012 he was 67kg, but some of his competitors weigh in over 100kg.

When Wiggins debuted at the 2017 British Indoor Championships, he finished a distant 21st. In 2018, he joined the Tideway Scullers team in the Masters B eight, taking third place.

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