About Daniel Lloyd (cyclist)
Daniel William Llewellyn Lloyd (born 11 August 1980) is an English broadcaster, content creator and retired professional road racing cyclist from Christchurch, Dorset. Lloyd's professional cycling victories include the Vuelta a Extremadura overall in 2008 and stages of Tour of Siam and Tour of Qinghai Lake in 2006. Lloyd has said that his favourite races include the Tour of Flanders, one of the two major Cobbled Classics, and Strade Bianche, in which he became the first British rider to claim a top-10 finish in 2009. He has also noted that the highlights of his cycling career were reaching the Champs-Élysées in the 2010 Tour de France and riding in the 2009 Tour of Qatar, which was his first race with the Cervélo TestTeam. == Career == Lloyd started cycling competitively as a mountain bike racer in his early teens and won the Southern Area Mountain Bike Championships as a junior. He started competing in road races at around the same time and would later focus on this discipline. Lloyd was active in the professional peloton from 2001 to 2012, with his most successful years coming between 2006 and 2009. After competing for Endurasport, Flanders-Afin.com and Giant Asia Racing Team in his early years as a professional, in 2007 Lloyd signed a contract with DFL–Cyclingnews–Litespeed for whom he rode for one year. He was a member of the Irish An Post–M.Donnelly–Grant Thornton–Sean Kelly team in 2008. In 2009 he joined the Cervélo TestTeam (CTT), and was one of seven riders to move to Garmin–Cervélo when CTT folded at the end of 2010.
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