17-year-old Brit Josh Tarling: not boring, not bad on a bike either, after claiming silver in junior men's time trial

The 17-year-old Brit took silver, GB's second medal of this Worlds, in the junior men's time trial

Josh Tarling
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The press room in Bruges for the Worlds time trial events is held in the city's cavernous concert hall. There are no windows and it's almost always deathly quiet.

Therefore, as Josh Tarling walks out alongside the GB press officer I'm 99 per cent sure I hear him say "I'm a boring person", remonstrating with his minder after fielding questions in his first press conference of this magnitude, having claimed silver medal in the men's junior time trial at the Flanders World Championships.

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