Luke Rowe: Team Sky’s formidable road captain

The Welshman talks about his journey from carefree youngster to Sky’s Tour de France road captain

Luke Rowe and John Degenkolb in action during the 2015 Paris - Roubaix. Photo: Graham Watson

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Some 25 year-olds might see it as a rite of passage: ending up in hospital in a foreign city, unable to walk at the end of your mate’s stag weekend after problems with the bottle. Luke Rowe’s done it. Though it’s not quite what you had in mind.

“Everyone instantly thinks it’s alcohol related, don’t they?” Rowe tells Cycling Weekly. “And trying to explain that one to the team was a long-winded story.”

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