Flynn and fellow countryman, Oscar Onley, made history at last year’s Tour de France with it being the first time two Scots competed in the event.<\/p>\n
Onley went on to finish fourth, equalling the best performance by a Scottish rider, while team-mate Flynn was 134th in the general classification after more than 81 hours in the saddle.<\/p>\n
“Over the last couple of years we have become used to, alongside Oscar, taking on this ‘first Scot in a while’ kind of a thing and that is always a nice reminder of where we have managed to get to and what we are doing.<\/p>\n
“In a few years it is not going to be so unusual to have Scots at the start of these races so maybe I play a small part in that which is cool.<\/p>\n
“I don’t really compare myself too much with Oscar. What he has achieved is just incredible and I am proud to have been a small part in that at times.<\/p>\n
“I suppose here I am starting a race where he isn’t. I’m sure Oscar will be along to the Giro soon to probably get his arms in the air. I will have to up my game to be able to get to that stage before him.<\/p>\n
“For me, the main goal there is to help Casper van Uden our sprinter to take a stage win like he did last year.”<\/p>\n
Flynn is one half of a Scottish cycling power couple. His girlfriend, Lauren Dickson, is making her mark at the elite level of the women’s road racing scene, where she rides for leading team FDJ-Suez.<\/p>\n
“We do help each other a lot,” said Flynn. “Her journey has been really inspiring and does give me a lot of encouragement. I also think I have played my part in helping her to get to the place she is now and that is really nice that we can do that together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flynn and fellow countryman, Oscar Onley, made history at last year’s Tour de France with it being the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-571851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}