Steve Cummings, who has enjoyed arguably the best start to a season of his career, has told Cyclingnews that he has been struggling mentally with the changes and revelations in cycling over the last week.
Cummings, who won a stage in Pais Vasco and Tirreno-Adriatico earlier this year, is currently racing the Tour de Yorkshire. The race is going on under a difficult and tense backdrop with British Cycling reeling from a week of sexism and discriminatory allegations, a positive test for Simon Yates (Orica GreenEdge), and for Cummings on a more personal level, a shift in management at Dimension Data after the team parted ways with general manager, Brian Smith.
“It’s been a mad week. Since Liege I’ve been struggling a bit mentally,” Cummings told Cyclingnews at the end of stage 1 in Yorkshire.
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“It’s the end of the first period of the season for me and the changes in the team were a bit unsettling but I feel better about it already after being with the team here. The stuff with Shane [Sutton] has been a bit unsettling, and then the Yates thing. It was three things without even pushing a pedal.”
Brian Smith came onto the team in 2014 as the interim manager and he quickly set about improving the squad infrastructure, and signing riders such as Cummings and later Mark Cavendish when the team moved into the WorldTour.
However, this year Smith found himself taking on more of a logistical role than the ‘coalface’ one he highlighted to Cyclingnews earlier this week. Doug Ryder, the team owner, will not take on more responsibility with Smith leaving by mutual consent.
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