The inquisitive Dan Martin: ‘I’ve been told I’m difficult to work with’

It was, in his own words, almost inevitable that Dan Martin would pursue a cycling career.

The Irishman spent many an afternoon watching his father, Neil Martin, race on TV, surrounded by cycling magazines on the coffee table and a family that shared a kindred passion for the sport.

‘I just enjoyed riding,’ he says, ‘then I started to do a little bit of racing and ended up being quite good. I think the mental strength and instinct, well, I’d been watching cycling since I was born so I had a lot of experience before I even started racing.’