Team Sky neo-pro Tao Geoghegan Hart looked back at a solid first year in the WorldTour in an interview posted on the team's website.
The 22-year-old moved from Axel Merckx's Axeon Hagens Berman squad and spent most of the year learning the nuances of top-level racing and life in one of the sport's top teams, but proved his abilities in teamwork, consistency and reliability.
"My aim with [coach] Dario [Cioni] was to be able to do my job throughout the year while being ready for any opportunities that might arise through the year – you never know when that could be," Geoghegan Hart said. "I wasn't down to do the Tour de Suisse and ended up doing that, and had an opportunity to race a bit there alongside Mikel Nieve. It was similar with the Tour of California. It was about being ready to grasp those opportunities when they came while doing my job across the year. That was my primary role."
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The Briton was part of Team Sky's victorious Hammer Sportzone Limburg squad and admitted that the riders were all sceptical about the novel format of the race.
In the first day, the Hammer Climb, Geoghegan Hart marked the move of the day from Movistar's Carlos Betancur, picking up points each lap until he crashed in the closing laps. The results put Sky in a position, after Elia Viviani's solid ride in the sprint stage, to chase down Team Sunweb in the team time trial/chase event and win the overall. Geoghegan Hart said the event was enjoyable. "There was a great energy about it once we got stuck in and got over the fact it was something new and different.
"I guess it's always weird with a new race - it doesn't have the same prestige as a race that's been around for a long time. I know a lot of people watched it as well - there was a lot of people who don't usually watch racing, if at all, and they watched Hammer because it was live on Facebook, so that was interesting."
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