Keep friends close, your rivals closer

GER WOLFE jumps out of bed at 7am every morning and it isn’t long before he’s pedalling out of the driveway.

Before he crawls back under the duvet that night, with aching muscles, he’ll have done everything he can to make sure he’s one day the best mountain bikers in the world. But at this stage he’s not even the best in his own house.

Wolfe, 26, is one of the country’s best. But his younger sibling Dan is the best. At the moment at least.