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a stockbroker who starts cycling in 2015, aged 26, enters nationals the next year, riding for a domestic pro team the year after. So for 1, massive privilege of being able to quit his job, buy every training tool and aid, pro team kit and bikes etc, but also 2, no way in hell is he getting to top national level in 12 months from someone who didn't even ride a bike before or do a different professional sport without some chemical aid.
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Self fund does not usually equate to literally buying your way into a team.
He's basically an arrogant prick who thinks he's better than he actually is. Caused loads of crashes, insulted people, abandonded his family to sleep in an altitude tent as a 2nd cat and there are the rumours that his city boy dealers didn't just offer up coke.... He threw loads of money obsessing over absolutely everything to become good enough to pay to ride as a domestique in chipper pro races.
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What’s the story with Richardson? I understand why some people don’t particularly admire his route into the sport but it does seem to be the case for domestic ‘pros’ that they have to self fund their careers for a certain amount of time because they get paid eff all.
Is he a bit of a whopper on top of that?
I personally enjoyed him winning solo at that race (Lincoln GP?) without a team a couple of years ago.
Edit: I know he lives in a big house and worked in finance but that increasingly seems to apply to half of this forum.