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    Just Abi

    Feb 10, 2022 4 minutes
    Photos Ashley Gruber & Jered Gruber/Gruber Images, SWpix

    Abi Smith has quite a lot going on. When she’s not busy dominating the UK domestic racing calendar as she did in 2021, she’s either playing one of multiple instruments, painting or simply nerding out. Though the 19-year-old’s WorldTour cycling career at EF Education-Tibco is in its first months she’s already drawing up plans for university for when she hangs up her wheels. Maybe her biology A-level will aid a medicine degree. Her overall athletic prowess made PE an obvious A-level, and she links her geography studies to mapping her rides, studying wind direction and being outside.

    “I’m really nerdy about it. Well I am really nerdy,” speaks with her. She plays piano and viola, and one look at her painting of the Ribblehead Viaduct on her noncycling Instagram feed (abijesmith.art) is proof of her artistic excellence.

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