Daniel Lloyd (born 11 August 1980[1]) is an English broadcaster, content creator and retired professional road racing cyclist from Christchurch, Dorset.
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 started his season in January at the Tour of Siam, winning the final stage around Phuket by 36 seconds ahead of teammate Kuan Hua Lai.
[14] He was employed primarily as a domestique for Carlos Sastre, helping the reigning Tour de France champion to a 4th place overall finish in 2009.
Sastre was later upgraded to second behind winner Denis Menchov after Danilo di Luca and Franco Pellizotti were excluded for doping violations.
[15][16] In his sole Tour de France appearance in 2010, Lloyd finished 164th of the 170 riders who completed the race, over four hours behind initial winner Alberto Contador.
He would later be upgraded several places after multiple riders were excluded from the results, including Contador which saw Andy Schleck declared the official victor.
In 2009, Lloyd made his sole appearance in the road race at the UCI World Championships which were held that year in Mendrisio, Switzerland.
[27] Lloyd is the lead presenter for GCN's news and race preview shows, often alongside former IG-Sigma teammate Simon Richardson.
He has used this platform to voice his opinion on cycling matters, for example regarding whether only amateur and unsigned riders should be eligible to compete in the men's under-23 road race at the UCI World Championships.
After Warner sold their majority stake in PSN back to the company's founders in 2024, Lloyd announced that he would no longer appear on Eurosport programming and would be focusing solely on his role at GCN.