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Published 13:00 9 Sept 2020 BST
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"He's still relatively young, in cycling terms, and he's a young sprinter, really. We can almost consider him British.""I know that you lot won't like that, will you?" Wiggins then asked Kelly - a proud Carrick-on-Suir man, like Bennett. All Kelly could manage was a head-shake, followed by a bemused smirk. Wiggins pressed on, about knowing Bennett for a number of years before Kelly found his voice.
KELLY: You're not going to claim him! WIGGINS: No... but we spoke to him at the Vuelta last year when he came on our show. At least we can understand what he's saying. We can't really understand what you're saying, Sean, can we?For 26 seconds, that is some strike-rate of playful jabs for Wiggins. https://twitter.com/onthenickel/status/1303620513860931584 We won't go around banging any pots and pans about this one. Wiggins was surely on the wind-up and Kelly did well to bite his tongue. We will just conclude with the short and sweet words of Dermot Kennedy when he was recently claimed as a British success story:
'Thank you for the kind words, but as Paul Mescal once said, "I'm Irish".'Maith an fear. For the record, Bennett and Wiggins were both born in Belgium. Bennett was raised in Carrick while Wiggins was raised in London from the age of two.
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