VERY A BELGIAN EDUCATION
oung British rider Alex Beldon is in his second race of the day. It’s one he can’t lose and his tired legs are sprinting. Still ringing in his ears are the words of his Fensham Howes-MAS Design team director Giles Pidcock earlier in the day: “It’s just a time trial and you’re ace at them.” But he’s not riding his bike right now, he is running through a Brussels airport terminal desperate to make his flight and his date with his geography GCSE exam. Just hours earlier he’d been racing the Junior Tour of Flanders but now the only thing that matters is getting on that plane.
“We had to drive at 100 miles an hour [not literally] to the airport,” he recalls. “It was quite hectic and stressful. I think I had 12 missed calls from my mum, she was trying to make sure that I was on my way,” he says, thankful for the fast track ticket his mum had bought him.
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