Such is the promise already shown by Tao Geoghegan Hart, the general consensus is that it’s a matter of when, rather than if, he will make the step up to WorldTour level.
The 20-year-old rose to the senior ranks last year and is currently in his second season with the Axeon team (formerly the Bissell Development team) run by Axel Merckx. Last season he mixed encouraging U23 results such as 3rd at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and 10th at the Tour de l’Avenir with eye-catching displays alongside the established pros, like at the Tour of Britain where he was 15th overall. It is something he has built on this year, with another U23 Liège podium and a hugely impressive 13th overall at the 2.HC Tour of California, where he was fifteenth on the mountain stage.
Amid the growing expectation, Geoghegan Hart is resolutely refusing to rest on his laurels and is resisting any pressure or temptation to get ahead of himself.
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“At the moment, you never reach an end goal, there’s a lot of learning to be done,” he told Cyclingnews during the British road championships weekend in Lincolnshire.
“My early season was pretty good, Liège was an OK result, California was certainly a step up from last year, with the experience of being an out and out team leader, in terms of developing, learning how that works and being up there in GC of a big race.”
Whatever future plans may take shape, Geoghegan Hart is concentrating on living in the moment, extracting the most out of each minute spent on the bike, and making himself as complete a rider as possible.
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