A SECOND GOLDEN AGE OF UK XC
When Yorkshire’s Tom Pidcock dodged and burned his way through the rock gardens beneath Mount Fuji this summer to claim Olympic XC gold it was a monumental, and very long-awaited, day for British mountain biking. Evie Richards’ subsequent World
Championships win and first Elite World Cup victory proved it was no one-off, and the depth of talent in the UK ranks – with riders of the calibre of Annie Last, Harriet ‘Hattie’ Harnden and Isla Short not far behind – hints at further success to come. The early Nineties have often been hailed as the golden age of British XC, but it looks like we could
