Siblings Dan, Gee and Rachel Atherton have dominated mountain biking for years and in Slovenia the family will race on their own brand of bikes for the first time
The Athertons’ ride started when Dan, then 15 and the eldest of three siblings, first took to the BMX tracks around their home near Exeter and encouraged his brother, Gee, and sister, Rachel, to join in. A decade or so later, on 1 June 2008 in the Andorran resort of Vallnord, four Mountain Bike World Cup races were held and the Athertons won three of them.
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