"I really believe in the team that we have here" - Alison Jackson "excited to suffer" in quest for rainbow jersey

Despite crashing out of last Sunday's World Championship time trial, EF Education-TIBCO-SVB's newest signing Alison Jackson, is quietly confident of bringing the famed rainbow jersey back to Canada. “I think the motivation is super high and sometimes that will take you pretty far at the end of the day,”

Joined on the Canadian team by experienced Leah Kirchmann and exciting prospects Olivia Baril, Simone Boilard, and Magdeleine Vallieres Mill. Jackson believes that the time could be right for something of a coming of age for the team "We will work together, and hopefully, we can come out with a good result.”

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With the biggest challenge of the 6 lap, 34.2km course around Wollongong being the 6 summits of the 8.7km climb up Mount Kiera, Jackson was confident when discussing Canada's ability to deal with the rising road, "It really will depend on how it’s raced, it’s a tough climby course. I’m a good classics rider with some climbing and punchy technical course,” she said. “This one is on the higher end of the climbing but then that’s why we have a team here that has a few more of the strengths that I have."

On Sunday's disappointment, Jackson seems to have already put it to the back of her mind, “This is my first time racing the time trial at the world championships and I was just excited to do it." she said. Jackson was also full of praise for the land down under, "It was just exciting to lay the power down on a course like that in Australia, which is a beautiful country. I just wanted to do it really as a test and see where I fit in at the worlds.”

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