Wiggins heads field for RideLondon-Surrey Classic (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) – Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner, will ride in the third Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic cycle race on Aug. 2. Organizers said the event would mark the Briton’s first race on home soil since he set a new UCI (International Cycling Union) world one-hour record at the Olympic velodrome earlier this month. “Every race wants Wiggins. He now has rock star status and generates massive excitement wherever he races,” race director Mick Bennett said in a statement. “We expect hundreds of thousands of spectators to line the route to cheer him on. …