Cycling Weekly — January 11, 2018

These results were instrumental
in Great Britain finishing second
in the Nations Cup and, while 21
riders contributed to the Dutch
team’s tally, only six GB riders
scored, four of them from Liv-Epic.
Senior success is not restricted
to the road. After dominating
the Junior Track Championships
Roberts, Georgi, Dolan and Emily
Tillett — all juniors — finished
second in the senior National
Championship team pursuit.
“You expect people on the
national squad to be good and
hopefully some to compete at
world level,” says Peter Georgi.
“The fact that our collective filled
the majority of that surprised me.
Something must be going right
because we have not gone round
with a cheque book hoovering up
the best riders. This is organic,
home grown, people who have
known each other. We facilitated
what was happening naturally.”
His daughter’s reaction to her
Worlds performance suggests that

despite the success they remain

grounded. “It wasn’t like I had a

medal or had won,” she explains.

“I was pleased with my results but

I didn’t really feel that I needed

to celebrate. I was thinking about

learning for next year because

I have got another opportunity

as a junior, so I want to think

about that.”

Mark Dolan represented GB

in his youth, and Peter Georgi is

accomplished on road and track.

Pfeiffer’s brother Etienne rides

with Team Wiggins, so doubtless

some of the girls have a genetic

advantage, but that alone does

not explain Liv-Epic’s prodigious

success. “I am not sure,” Georgi

continues. “We have grown up

together and trained together, we

have just been learning together.

The group are really good friends

and we have fun at races when we

go there and support each other. It

has been really helpful.”

Rider Lauren Murphy adds,

“When you are in a team with

people who you consider some

of the best riders of your age

group, not just in the country, but

internationally, it definitely pushes

you to make sure you can be the

best that you can be.”

Though Dolan and Roberts have

moved to British Cycling’s senior

academy, and Murphy has left

after graduating from the junior

ranks, the results keep coming.

Georgi and Anna Docherty

recently won the National Madison

Championships, and will be

joined this year by Amelia Sharp

sharing junior academy and club

commitments on the renamed Liv

CC-Halo Cycles.

Whatever their secret, these

young women combine fierce

ambition with a determined level-

headedness which can only serve

them well. Should they continue

their current trajectories as they

graduate to the next stage of their

cycling careers, expect them to

contribute to British women’s

success for years to come.

Pfeiffer Georgi rolls

down the ramp at the

2017 Worlds in Bergen

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