Bradley Wiggins coy on retirement as he wins Six Days of Ghent with Mark Cavendish

Going into the final day of the event Wiggins and Cavendish held a one-lap lead but they were pushed back by the two Belgian teams.

However, right at the end of the final Madison Wiggins and Cavendish made their move and took a crucial lap which gave them victory.

Wiggins, who was born in Ghent, had intimated this could be his last professional race before the event started.

But while he admitted it would probably "be the last time" that he and Cavendish rode together, he would not commit to saying it would be it for him as an individual.

Wiggins also said he "just wants to enjoy this moment" rather than making a decision on his future.

“It has been nine years since I was last here and 13 since I won with Matthew Gilmour, and 18 years since I first came here as a 19-year-old boy," he said.

“But I was sat in the cabin down here with my father in 1981 and I feel like I was born here. I have always felt that this a second home to me. I can still remember as a child the smell of embrocation from the legs of the riders.

“The velodrome has not changed a bit and it always has been special to win here. And I always said that this would be my final send off to come here and race Ghent for one last time.

“To win it with Mark as well, after everything we have been through the last 10 years together... This will be the last time we race together for sure. Maybe not my last individually but together as a pairing. You think what we have a achieved together it is incredible.

“I am not sure about my future yet but at this moment I have still got really good legs so I don’t want to say that that is 100 per cent it. I will make an announcement next week but at the moment I am just going to enjoy today.

“My father would have been 64. I always think about him every day. He is still one of my heroes as a bike rider. I am not the biggest fan as a person and a father, he was rubbish, but as a bike rider he inspired me and that is why I am here as a racer today because of what he did. So I am always thankful for that and he gave me some good genes and a good fighting spirit.

“Me and Cav are like brothers you know. We have a good time together and would do anything for each other and we fight and bicker but we know each other’s strengths. We have raced together a lot – for 12 to 13 years now. It has been a great partnership like some of the greats you know. Patrick [Sercu] and Eddy [Merckx] and [Danny] Clark and [Don] Allan.”