'A stage win in the Tour de France really changed my profile': Steve Cummings on working as a chef, idolising Michele Bartoli, and playing football like Trent Alexander-Arnold

Jayco-AlUla Sports Director discusses his most significant career victory and how he got into cycling

Steve Cummings
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Steve Cummings is a former professional cyclist and won two individual stages of the Tour de France in 2015 and 2016. He also won a stage of the Vuelta a España in 2012. Other career highlights include overall victory at the Tour of Britain in 2016, and being crowned British national road and time trial champion a year later. After retiring from racing, Cummings worked as a Sports Director at Ineos Grenadiers before joining Australian WorldTour team Jayco-AlUla ahead of the current season.

This interview is part of Cycling Weekly's Q&A series.

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