Karl Vannieuwkerke: "Six Days of Ghent has made Bradley Wiggins who he is"

Six Days of Ghent is scheduled to start on 15th November and continue for the next six days. It is a huge event, and recently, sports commentator Karl Vannieuwkerke started a podcast called 100 years Six Days which will focus on stories relating to the event.

One such story is of retired professional rider and former Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins. Vannieuwkerke shed some light on the connection between Six days of Ghent and Wiggins, which started before he even chose professional riding as his career.

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Vannieuwkerke starts with "Bradley Wiggins, for example, says that his ashes can later be scattered in 't Kuipke. That does something to you," He continues, "Wiggins was born and made right next to 't Kuipke. It's in his DNA. His father had an alcohol addiction and left Wiggins in Ghent. The first time he saw him again was on the Six Days."

Vannieuwkerke went as far as to say it was Six days of Ghent which made Wiggins we know today. "Wiggins rode there himself but underperformed. His father told him that it would never work as a rider. He took the intrinsic motivation to prove otherwise. You can say that the Six Days has made Bradley Wiggins who he is. That's why the Brit also says it is a kind of religion," concluded Vannieuwkerke.