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.

Martin: I’m coming here to perform

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.

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