Tour de Suisse: 10 riders to watch

The Tour de Suisse often feels like the lesser cousin of the Critérium du Dauphiné but this year's race received a boost when the Tour de France was bumped back a week to accommodate the FIFA World Cup. With that in mind, a much heavier concentration of Tour de France hopefuls have turned to the Swiss race to hone their form ahead of July.

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.