Sean Nolan: 'I was up and down the Spanish mountains with a flat back wheel for 50k'

Sean Nolan

Rolling out from the sun-soaked Spanish town of Elche last week amongst a peloton of the world’s top riders, 19-year-old Sean Nolan from Navan could have been forgiven for thinking that he’d ‘made it’.

A first-year professional cyclist with the Irish-registered EvoPro Racing outfit, he was the underdog rider in the minnow team cobbled together on a shoestring budget by his uncle PJ in the winter of 2018.