British professional road and track racing cyclist – Bradley Wiggins (UCI ProTeam Team Sky) – took the award for 2012 UK’s Sports Personality an event organized by BBC. Curiously, Wiggins was born in Belgium (Ghent) and his father is Australian. Wiggins was the winner of this year’s Tour de France (the 1st British cyclist to do so) and also took…
Super Athletes – Alex Zanardi: From Motorsports Champion to Paralympic Gold
We start a new posts’ category dedicated to athletes that achieved outstanding performances in two or more completely different sports with Alex Zanardi. Alex Zanardi won two CART championship titles in North America (kind of equivalent to Formula 1 in Europe) in 1997 and 1998. Before that he was a Formula 1 driver between 1991 and 1994. In 1999…