Australia will compete at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games in August, with Caleb Ewan and Grace Brown leading the charge as the country attempts to replicate its Gold Coast clean sweep of the road cycling events.
Ewan will be joined by Michael Matthews, Kaden Groves, Miles Scotson, and Rohan Dennis, with about half of the group expected to return to the UK immediately after competing in the Tour de France.
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It'll also be a much shorter turnaround for Brown, with the Tour de France Femmes wrapping up on July 31, and a similar situation is likely for a lot of the women's team as well. Brown will be joined by Alexandra Manly, Brodie Chapman, Ruby Roseman-Gannon, and Sarah Roy.
Only Roy has previously competed for the country on the road in the Commonwealth Games, and she was a member of the gold medal-winning road squad at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in 2018. Manly has never been a member of an Australian road team, but she did win gold on the track at the most recent Commonwealth Games. Brown and Dennis will also be competing in the individual time-trial.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
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- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
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- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024