Source: TheGuardian
Alex Dowsett: ‘Professional cycling is fragile – billionaires come in, invest and get blown away’
The former Team Sky rider on the state of the sport, the Richard Freeman revelations and rooming with Bradley Wiggins“The world of professional bike racing is a total shitshow,” Alex Dowsett suggests in a wry observation, “and I am grateful and privileged to have been a part of it for so many years.” Dowsett raced professionally for a dozen years, winning two stages of the Giro d’Italia and becoming a six‑time national time trial champion before his retirement last October.Now, in his immensely readable and revealing new book he also explains that road cycling is a business where the suffering rider leaves his chances for glory “in the shaky hands of teams that are both state-of-the-art and shambolic”. Continue readingread full article