Fourteen years ago, Josh Tarling stood with his family on the Champs-Élysées in Paris for the final day of the Tour de France. He was eight years old at the time, already an avid cyclist himself, watching on in awe as the yellow jersey wearer Bradley Wiggins led out his team-mate Mark Cavendish for the stage victory.
That race finale has since gone down in British cycling legend. For Tarling, it’s his earliest memory of the Tour – a race that, as of this month, the Netcompany-Ineos rider is now part of. His debut, however, has not been smooth sailing.
