Alex Dowsett (Movistar Team) smiles for the camera(Image credit: El Pedal de Frodo)
Mark Cavendish, Alex Dowsett and Bradley Wiggins on the start line(Image credit: Rob Lampard)
Alex Dowsett (Movistar) in the early break(Image credit: Sirotti)
Alex Dowsett(Movistar) could hardly have imagined that he would be donning the yellow jersey at the Tour of Britain when he rolled out of Bath for stage 6 on Friday morning. That morning Dowsett wasn’t even in the top 20, sitting 1:25 behind race leader Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), now he leads the Polish rider by 34 seconds.
“I thought it would be a simple go out and QuickStep would bring us back,” said Dowsett. “I was really buckling in last 5km, I was relying quite heavily on Matthias, and Tom as well. The time point is taken on point of peloton crossing the line – there was a good chance they would have closed the gap.
“Before the Commonwealths, and after the Tour, I was doubting myself a lot. So this is more proof to me that I'm able to compete at this level. Nothing's changed, you have lull, you doubt yourself and you wonder if you can still cut it anymore. But I've proved today I'm able to compete at this level.”
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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.
