JACK BURKE

“I spent five years at the kti level in Europe and like or I spent eight years at the kti level five of them were in Europe and as far as everyone else that I know it's like most guys go to Europe if they're not European they go to Europe they last the conty level for one or maybe two years and then they they go either they make it or they quit and go home”

“the biggest step in procycling was the jump up to the world tour now the development teams are so good that the bigger step is actually from the club teams to the development teams because the development teams are basically World Tour now like you look at the best under 23 in junior teams it's basically a world tour team so if you miss that pipeline it's incredibly hard to make it”

“you would be amazed at they will give a young athlete more time like when it comes to giving advice often more than a journalist who could actually do something for their career like a journalist that's going to write a nice story about them they're probably going to be less motivated for that than to help a young kid because they remember what that was like”