Bradley Wiggins at Team Sky in pics

Thursday 9 April 2015 16:56, UK

Image: Bradley Wiggins was one of the founding members of Team Sky in 2010
Image: His first race for the team was the Tour of Qatar
Image: His first win came in the 2010 Giro d'Italia prologue
Image: However, the Tour de France didn't go quite as well, with Wiggins finishing 22nd overall
Image: Victory in the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine gave him the perfect build-up to that year's Tour
Image: But a crash on stage seven forced time to quit the race
Image: He recovered to finish third in the 2011 Vuelta a Espana, behind winner Juan Jose Cobo and team-mate Chris Froome
Image: Victory at Paris-Nice set the ball rolling on a glorious 2012
Image: He even won a bunch sprint on the way to overall victory at the Tour de Romandie
Image: A second successive Criterium du Dauphine triumph followed
Image: Wiggins took control of the 2012 Tour by winning stage nine's individual time trial
Image: Another victory in the stage 19 time trial sealed an historic triumph
Image: Wiggins became the first British winner of the race
Image: He celebrated in style on the Champs-Elysees
Image: Having also won the Olympic time trial title, Wiggins received a knighthood
Image: Wiggins then targeted the 2013 Giro, but injury and illness forced him out of the race
Image: The year was also marred by a rocky relationship with Froome, left, who would go on to succeed him as Tour winner
Image: Wiggins wasn't off the podium for long, though, and sealed overall victory in the 2013 Tour of Britain
Image: He also showed his pedigree on cobbles by finishing an impressive ninth in Paris-Roubaix in 2014
Image: He handed Team Sky another stage-race win by triumphing at the 2014 Tour of California