FROM PISTE TO PELOTON

Anyone watching the women’s elite road race at the Flanders World Championships last September might have been forgiven for thinking there was more than one Team GB rider wearing a Jumbo-Visma helmet.

After the British took control through Leuven and onto the Flanders circuit, the race exploded in attack after attack, most of them marked by a white jerseyed rider in one of those yellow and black helmets.

But despite its omnipresence there was only one GB rider wearing the distinctive lid. From the 100th kilometre onward Anna Henderson was rarely further back than 20th position. Indeed she covered 14 attacks for her leader, Lizzie Deignan, before making her own move off the front too.

“I got sent out on a TT bike and just got told to go as fast as possible”

Though she eventually finished 25th, 11 places and 48 seconds behind Deignan, she was arguably the strongest Brit in the race, maybe even