Bradley Wiggins breaks hour record at London velodrome (The Associated Press)

Olympic champion and Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins added another prestigious honor to his collection on Sunday, breaking the UCI Hour Record by covering 54.526 kilometers (33.88 miles) at the velodrome in London’s Olympic Park. ”That’s the closest I will come to knowing what it’s like to have a baby,” Wiggins said, referring to the pain in his legs after smashing the record of 52.937 kilometers set just last month by fellow Englishman Alex Dowsett. Wiggins became the sixth cyclist to win the Tour de France – cycling’s greatest race – and break the hour record, after Lucien Petit-Breton, Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx and Miguel Indurain.