Josh Tarling may only just be 20, but he already exudes the confidence of an athlete who knows exactly where he is going. “I’m going to Paris to win,” he says of this year’s Olympic Games, where he hopes to win cycling gold on the road, in the individual time trial and, potentially in the velodrome, in the madison.
Tarling, from Aberaeron in west Wales, is enjoying a meteoric rise through the professional peloton, progressing from the junior ranks with his parents’ cycling club to the hothouse of the World Tour with Ineos Grenadiers at eye‑watering speed.
