57-year-old has been treated for
cancer and heart issues‘If I have any further issues I won’t be able to continue’Dave Brailsford has admitted the stress on his health as a result of running Team Sky and now Ineos Grenadiers may force him to step down from his role as team principal.
Brailsford was a reclusive presence on this year’s Tour de
France, in which his team’s best-placed rider was Richard Carapaz, third overall in
Paris to winner Tadej Pogacar. The 57-year-old has been treated for both cancer and heart issues in the past two years, with his heart scare coinciding with spring’s hearings relating to Richard Freeman, the former Team Sky and
British Cycling doctor who was eventually found guilty of ordering banned testosterone for an unnamed rider.