simon yates wiki : Simon Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist. He currently competes for the Mitchelton–Scott team.His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a cyclist.
The brothers took up cycling after their father John was injured in a collision with a car while riding. During John's recovery he took the twins to Manchester Velodrome to track sessions run by his cycling club, Bury Clarion, to keep in touch with the other members. Both brothers soon started riding on the road for Bury Clarion and on the track for Eastlands Velo.
At the age of 18 Simon was selected by British Cycling for its Olympic Academy programme. He was also selected for the England team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where his room-mate was Chris Froome.
He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track World Championships.
Simon made his breakthrough on the road in 2013 riding for the British national team. Along with brother Adam, he competed at the 2013 Tour de l'Avenir for the Great Britain national team, where Simon won the race's fifth stage, ahead of Adam.Simon added another stage victory the following day, and finished the race tenth overall.
He was then selected as part of the British national team to take part in the Tour of Britain. He competed well throughout the race and on stage six he took his biggest win to date, sprinting clear of a nine-man group at the finish, which included Bradley Wiggins and Nairo Quintana . Yates finished third overall in the Tour of Britain, and was the best rider in the under-23 classification.
Simon Yates has confirmed his and the team's plans for him participating in the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
In March, Yates won Stage 7 of the 2018 Paris–Nice, a mountain top finish to Valdeblore La Colmiane, to take the overall race lead going into the final stage. However, on Stage 8 Marc Soler of Movistar Team, who started the final stage 37 seconds down on Yates in sixth place overall, attacked around halfway into the stage along with compatriot David de la Cruz (Team Sky); the duo joined Omar Fraile (Astana) at the head of the race, and the trio managed to stay clear of the rest of the field by the time they reached Nice. As de la Cruz and Fraile contested stage honours, Soler finished third – acquiring four bonus seconds on the finish in addition to three gained at an earlier intermediate sprint – and with a 35-second gap to Yates and the remaining general classification contenders, it was enough to give Soler victory over Yates by four seconds.
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