Bradley Wiggins: What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life? — FLAPSS

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What one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?

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Bradley Wiggins

British former professional road and track racing cyclist

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This isn’t a complaint, but obscurity would be nice. You can’t have a bad day in public because everyone’s got phones.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

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Less work, more living.

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They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.

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On an iPhone, why can’t you close all open apps at once, rather than flicking through them all?

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The metabolism I had in my 20s.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗

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Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

Loss of control.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Question What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy? Time & hindsight

When my second child Bella was born in 2006. I missed my son Ben being born because I was racing, so seeing it for the first time was quite an experience.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Question How close have you come to dying? Death & what remains

I had quite a chequered childhood. I had a knife put to my throat once when I was a kid, which was very scary.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Question What is the worst job you have ever had? Craft & work

I’ve never had a job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As an honest person who did his best.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

Question What disappointment has stayed with you longest? Failure & regret

Never going back to the Tour de France and trying to win again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2019 source ↗

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