*MKILETEWA HAPA NA FLORA LYIMO*
Champagne moment: Bradley Wiggins tastes victory on the Champs-Elysees"
Fans' favourite: Supporters clamber to offer their best wishes to Wiggins
His is an achievement that spans centuries and cannot be attributed to mere advances in training or technology. The first Tour de France was held in 1903 and the first British entrants rode in 1937. Since 1956, there have been only two Tours that have not contained a British presence. Some were lone riders, operating without the protection of a team, but it is not as if Wiggins is the first winner from these shores because no other blighter was interested.
Nor is he winning an event in its infancy. This is not like football where the Premier League and Champions League have become so powerful, it is as if history started just 20 years ago.
Head and shoulders above: Wiggins is hoisted aloft by fellow Team Sky members
Sir Chris Hoy placed him higher even than Sir Steve Redgrave, and he may have a case. Put it like this: if Danny Boyle was reshooting his finale for the Olympic ceremony right now, so that Wiggins rode up a ramp to light the flame, it would not be his worst day’s work.
A moment to savour: Wiggins stands top of the podium, ahead of team-mate Chris Froome (left) and Vincenzo Nibali
Wiggins’s acceptance as a Tour cyclist of substance finds its truest expression in the ‘Wiggo le Froggy’
Well-oiled machine: Wiggins spearheaded Team Sky's ruthless assault on the Tour title"
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