Just hours after Wiggins won a gold medal in the time trials, a 28-year-old man died in a
fatal collision with an official London 2012 media bus.

The 65-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving by
east London police station.

The accident took place outside the Olympic Park, in Hackney, close to the Games’ Velodrome,
hockey pitch and Paralympics’ tennis arena, as foreign journalists were being shifted to another venue.

Police officers and an air ambulance crew tried to save the cyclist but he died at the scene
30 minutes later.

The accident just occurred minutes before Wiggins was about to speak to a press conference
at the Olympic Park.

He said the government should be ‘legalising helmets to make them the law to wear.’

The collision is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police’s Road Death Investigation Unit.