The Waterford hurling man plotting Tour de France success
Sports scientist Stephen Barrett has been headhunted by a French World Tour team as they strive to find that crucial edge
Stephen Barrett spent the last two years working with Irish cycling team Aqua Blue, the Waterford hurling team and lecturing at WIT
Wind tunnels, time trials and plotting to win the Tour de France are not the topics of conversation you would expect when engaging a member of Páraic Fanning's backroom team, but in the hour before a December challenge match between the Waterford and Dublin hurlers, this is what Stephen Barrett is explaining with his usual enthusiasm.
The Fermoy man is a dual star in sports science, aligned to his now adopted home of Waterford and for 2019 to the World Tour cycling team AG2R.
