Martin: I’m coming here to perform

For a man who has just completed the Tour de France, Dan Martin is looking remarkably relaxed and refreshed as he sits on his bike in the Olympic Village.

Sunday was an afternoon of pageantry in the centre of Paris, Monday a tedious combination of delayed flights and lost buses before he caught up on some lost sleep. Eventually on Tuesday, Martin was back to business, relishing a return to the open road and wherever it would take him on an overdue training spin.

“It is strange,” he admitted of the past week. “Sunday I was riding down the Champs-Élysées on my first Tour de France and then on Monday I arrived here for my first Olympic Games.