Dad’s backing helps fuel Carter de Veer to multiple national cycling crowns

Dad’s backing helps fuel Carter de Veer to multiple national cycling crowns

By Keiran Gorsky Carter de Veer had won his first-ever European race at the Grand Prix West Bohemia in Prague the day before. He was powering through a hill-filled stretch of the competition’s second half when he felt a slight weight on his front wheel. The next moment, he was down on the ground. “I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to my surroundings,” de Veer reflects. Another competitor had clipped him from the front. His father Craig de…