‘I can catch her now’ – Grace Brown’s women’s Tour Down Under pursuit pays off
Victory on the final stage of the Women’s WorldTour 𒉰race nets FDJ Suez rider first top-tier overall win

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Grace Brown (FDJ Suez) had been ever so close to clinching her first Women’s WorldTour GC win at the Women’s Tour in 2022, but in the end it was a single second that stood in her way. Lining up at the home nation race of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:women’s Santos Tour Down Under she had no intention of letting another one slip so narrowly throug🦂h her fingers.
"I mean, I was really disappointed in the Women's Tour of Britain, especially losing by one second there but I learnt lessons from that too,” Brown said after sweeping up victory in stage 3 and overall. “I think those lessons helped me win this week by going on the first⛦ stage for sprint bonuses and everything like that so that I could ♕put myself a bit forward.”
“Because we don't know what's going to happen on the last stage here today. I thin💧k I was wise."
Brown had prepared for the eventuality she faced coming into the final kilometres, it was after all a former teammate, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amanda Spratt (Trek-Segafredo) who was out the front and there was 𝕴certainly no surprise that she’d launched a scorching attack on the final climb of the Corkscrew.
There was also no surprise that Brown was in hot pursuit, with her gearing set up in anticipation that it could be a chase to the line to try and win the three-stag🎃e race in its very first year on the Women’s WorldTour.
“I was literally thinking I have to push, keep pushing and at first I couldn't see her because of all the corners ꧃and then I could see a moto and I was like she 🎃must be ahead of that,” said Brown, happily reliving the moment where she set up her first-ever Women’s WorldTour GC victory.
“I think it was in the last three kilometres, when I first saw Spratty and I thought, Yeah, I can catch her now but I was thinking maybe I should back off a little bit so that I could catch her by surp𝔉rise in th🍨e finish. In the end, I caught her in the last kilometre and I just sat on and trusted that I could outsprint her."
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And outsprint her she did, and given Grace Brown entered the stage with a six-second advantage over Spratt on the overall that 🐻clearly put her in the ochre jersey of the overall leader as well r🌟ight when it counted most, on the final stage.
"I was pretty confident after Nationals that I was in good form and I believed th💟at it was a possibility to win here this wee🌟k,” said Brown, who came second in the road race there and took out the time trial title. “After stage two, I didn't feel great yesterday, I was a little bit worried but when we started out today, I was like, ‘I think I'm on for a good one today’.”
“It was just amazing to be here in Adelaide, in my home country and have ever🧔yone in this crowd watching,” said Brown who had her husband, family and friends on the sidelines cheering her on. “That's a pretty special feeling."

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2🐎015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.