Roving Reporter, and cycling enthusiast, Mhairi Moore was at this years Men’s Cycling Tour of Britain to get the inside track on the world’s best, in male cycling and interviewed Superstar cyclist Mark Cavendish.

The launch of the 2019 men’s tour of Britain started in George square, Glasgow on the 7th September 2019 and will finish on the 14 September 2019 in Manchester’s city centre. For the first time in modern history, Scotland is proud to host the first two opening stages of the tour, with stage one being held in Glasgow and stage two in Kelso. The gruelling 8 stage race will consist of 20 teams and 120 riders from all over the world, who will battle it out over the course of a week covering a staggering distance of 1,250km.

The tour started off around nine o’clock on Saturday morning. Each team would get called up to the podium for pictures before the race started. The atmosphere in George square was electric with cycling fans eager to get a glimpse of their favourite riders who had flown in from all over the world. However there was one rider in particular that the majority of Glasgow wanted to meet, this was of course Mark Cavendish: Mark Cavendish is a British cyclist who has won a number of big titles in his career including 30 Tour De France stages, 48 Grand Tour Stages and 10 Tour of Britain stages – he is the Ronaldo/Messi of the cycling world.

When asked about racing in the tour of Britain, Cavendish said “September always has me looking forward to the OVO energy tour of Britain and racing in front of a home crowd holds a special importance to me on a very personal level”.

The time was half past ten and the tour of Britain had officially begun, as a flock of colourful riders made their way through Glasgow’s city centre heading towards the town of Kirkcudbright in south west Dumfries and Galloway.

This was one of the longest stages of the tour with riders force to tackle a number of hills throughout the 201.5km race.