Cyclist Elinor Barker: 'I’m still baffled women’s Madison is a new event'
22 February 2020 09:56
The Rio team gold medallist is in three events at next week’s world championships in Berlin – including only the second MadisonTime after time Elinor Barker travelled to track World Cups and world championships early in her career, competed – usually with some success – and then arrived at the final day. She would then sit in the stands with her teammates and watch the men competing in the Madison relay event, a complex, highly demanding endurance race run in teams of two that makes huge demands on bike-handling skills as well as speed and stamina.Barker could not figure out why she and her fellows did not have a race of their own. Like other women who had come through the Great Britain talent development system, Barker had ridden Madison as a training exercise but she was not permitted to do it internationally. Related: Elinor Barker wins fourth world track cycling title in Poland Related: Pocket rocket Tom Pidcock stirs up the world of cyclo-cross | Tim Lewis Continue readingread full article
