Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:15 pm  

He looks as though he has a low body fat %. Does anyone kbow what it is?

[JTB]

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:19 pm  

vbfg wrote:

10,000 calories a day is about the norm.

Spot of sugar on them then?

As an aside I always enjoy the Eurosport commentators laconic translations of the foreign riders. Shame he can't do the same for the Irish fella that commentates with him.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:43 pm  

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

[Wigan6/Leeds1 Andy]

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:51 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

Anyone who does the miles those riders do, going up some of those mountains is definitely an athlete. Different athletes have different body shapes depending on their sport.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:28 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

Anyone who does 34hours per week on a bike is an athlete in my book.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:41 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

What a bizarre thing to say!

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:05 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

Of course he is. It's his job to ride up the side of mountains at about 20mph. Power to weight ratio is his money winner. He has to ride every kind of geography there is day after day for three weeks. Not an athlete? He's impossibly thin on 10,000 calories a day. That's how easy this is.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:07 pm  

Phuzzy wrote:

What a bizarre thing to say!

I agree.

A few years ago I read Lance Armstrong's 'Its not about the bike" by chance even though I have no interest in cycling. What an inspirational read it turned out to be with the things he went through and then subsequently achieved.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:17 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

I agree.

Phil 'the power' Taylor now there's an athlete!

As Sid Waddell says ' these boys have got to be really fit'.

Re: Two "Wiggins" to support : Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:52 pm  

P-J wrote:

Great that he supports Wigan, but I'd be stretched to call him an athlete.

As my boss said, he looks like a 'skag head'. He's impossibly thin.

This is probably the comment of the year try doing just one day of what Wiggins does and then say hes not an athlete. The tours are one of the hardest athletic comps going!