When Sir Bradley Wiggins retired you would have thought it would have been all tributes and debates about whether he has been Britain’s greatest ever athlete.
To say that there’s been a bit of a cloud over it, though, would be an understatement.
It seems that for every opinion piece saying how great his achievements have been, there have been just as many saying his reputation has been tainted. And some are even suggesting he loses his knighthood.
It isn’t the retiral he thought he’d have been enjoying after Rio, that’s for sure.
The publication of his medical exemptions by the Russian computer hackers and then the investigation into a medical package ordered for him by Team Sky have been a PR disaster for Wiggins.
We probably all have to reserve our judgment until the story runs its course.
That might not be any time soon because you can be sure that the journalists working on this one will be like dogs with a bone.
Whatever the conclusion is, enough has come out already to tarnish his legacy.
Once suspicion is there, it can’t be taken back.
* 2017 is going to be a huge year for Rory McIlroy.
I had to double check when somebody said that he’s now gone two years without a major.
When he was the world number one there was even talk of him getting near to Jack Nicklaus’s career total.
Having four to your name is a collection most golfers could only dream about.
But McIlroy will want to separate himself from that pack of Dustin Johnson, Jason Day and Jordan Spieth, and become the undisputed best player of the current generation.
Golfers have long careers and Rory is still a young man but three years without a major would be a serious slowing down of his momentum.
* I had a great Christmas back home and mum and dad must have been reading the column because they got me a nice picture for my living room wall!
A new sponsored car from Pentland Jaguar and Land Rover put a smile on my face as well!
The team were all back on the ice at Braehead by Tuesday, though. It’s important to keep things ticking over because we’re slap, bang in the middle of our season.
It will be a similar story next week. I’m heading down to Southampton to see the New Year in and then it will be more practice.
I’m not big on setting New Year’s resolutions but the big New Year goal is making sure we get selected for the Olympics.
Other people might say that we’re nailed on for a place in the team but that’s not a mentality that we can afford to have.
We’ll be training and playing with the attitude that we need to fight for it until the announcement gets made.
The Worlds will be the big event of 2016 and I would be more than happy to go into the Olympics as World Champion.
That was the case four years ago and, even though some people thought it put more pressure on us, I felt it was a confidence booster.
Pretty much as soon as 2016 is over, the Olympics will be round the corner. It definitely feels like the countdown has begun.