Bradley Wiggins

I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.

I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

Doing 40-minute track sessions is easy money compared to what we were doing on the Tour. What you used to think was hard now feels like a walk in the park.

When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.

I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.

I ended up in Hampstead for two weeks after the Tour, visiting a hospital every day before my granddad died. But he was more than my granddad. He was like my father.

That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.

When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.

When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.

When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.

I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.