Ed Clancy started winning Olympic medals at Beijing 2008 - now he thinks there is a 20-year-old who can go even bigger
PARIS — You might think that after a lifetime of racing, Ed Clancy would have happily hung his bike up on the wall and driven off into the sunset, leaving two-wheeled life behind him after three decades of service.
But, in the words of British Cycling’s performance director Stephen Park, medals are getting harder to come by. Tarling was only a few months old when Peter Waterfield and Leon Taylor won that 10m synchro diving silver in Athens, but no one believes his tender years will hold the world bronze medalist back in the time trial, which finishes at the foot of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday evening.“For many years people talked about his engine and his potential in British Cycling. It’s almost like people never really wanted to jinx it. But I think everything that people hoped he’d become has happened.
Tarling is not alone in a British bike squad filled with burgeoning reputations, where the number of debutants is into double figures. “But by the time Geraint was 22, I was 23, and we were stood on top of the Olympic podium. We had realised our Olympic dream.
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