‘We’re up against entire countries’: WorldTour team boss bemoans ‘bizarre amounts’ of money changing hands in the peloton

That was then, this is now. The feeling that Covid marked a watershed moment, the onset of a new normal, pervades many walks of life.

The number of people earning their pay behind their own front doors is the most obvious, perhaps. Spending habits have also been affected significantly, with far more of it done online. And, according to one team boss, Covid seems to have left a major financial mark on the men’s WorldTour peloton.