Why it matters that a woman could be Australia's next Tour de France hero

Amanda Spratt
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Australian’s may not be the biggest followers of cycling, but they quickly embrace a sporting hero and even the most casual of cycling fans seemed swept up in the excitement of cheering on a home-nation hero when Cadel Evans was riding his way to victory at the Tour de France in 2011. ‘Yell for Cadel’ becoming the catch cry of the day, even across mainstream media which on most occasions buries the smallest snippets of cycling coverage somewhere among the swathe of Australian rules football news. The nation again rallied to ‘Roar for Richie’ as Richie Porte snagged third overall in 2020. 

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Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

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 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.