With Tom Pidcock, Ben Healy, and Ben Turner making their name in the WorldTour in the last two seasons and three more neo-pros ascending to cycling’s top level for 2023, Trinity Racing has emerged as a top provider of talent to the professional ranks.
The British Continental level squad, set up to support Pidcock back in 2020, provides talented young riders with the opportunities to race around Europe though the season.
Next year, Thomas Gloag will become one of the latest alumni to make the WorldTour, signing up for three years with Jumbo-Visma. The 21-year-old won a stage at the Tour de l’Avenir this year in addition to fourth at the U23 Giro last summer and third at the Ronde de l’Isard.
This season he has taken on races such as the Arctic Race of Norway and Tour of Britain with his trade team. As a stagiaire, he makes his Jumbo-Visma debut at Saturday’s Giro dell’Emilia.
Cyclingnews and Wielerfits (opens in new tab) caught up with Gloag in Norway back in August to find out more about his life and career, his cycling dreams, and his move to Jumbo-Visma.
Cyclingnews: To start at the beginning, how did you get into cycling?
Thomas Gloag: I’m from London, near Herne Hill velodrome which is actually where Ethan and Leo Hayter, Fred Wright, and quite a few other cyclists are from. I live a kilometre also from their house and basically, I started cycling because it was the cheapest childcare in the holidays when I was eight and we went down – it was five pounds for five hours which is fantastic.
My parents shifted me off there for five days a week. I was about eight years old. It was just summer camp with a with a load of other kids and I did that for four years before I even thought about racing a bike. It was just kind of a fun hobby.
I really enjoyed the competitive side of it. Like this camp would basically race just race constantly for four hours on the track – just all the time and mountain bike stuff as well. I’m a bit of a sore loser so when I lost it’s a good experience but I always like to try and compete and that was a good chance to compete.
CN: Did you come from a cycling background at home?
TG: My dad was doing a few triathlons but he was never a competitive cyclist. But just as a just as fun when he was in his 30s but not really a specific cycling background, no.
The only kind of sporting background in my family is my grandma who was an Olympic sprinter actually which is a bit different to what I am – in 100-200 metres on the track.
CN: And…
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