Tour de France: Martin loses 3 minutes to Froome but keeps top 10 spot

Dan Martin's time trial on stage 13 of the Tour de France certainly didn't set the world alight but the Etixx-QuickStep rider was left fairly satisfied with his effort. Having raced his time trial bike just once, and not training on it at all, Martin was able to keep his top 10 position in the general classification despite having lost three minutes to the yellow jersey.

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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.