Viviani thriving in technical Tour of Britain

When Elia Viviani (Team Sky) took victory on the opening stage of the Tour of Britain he wasn’t even sure that he had done it. Second time around, he had plenty of time to celebrate as he took a convincing win over Juan Jose Lobato (Movistar).

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.