Sliding away on a rainbow - No questions left for world time trial champion Grace Brown but there is one others keep asking

Picture by Ed Sykes/SWpix.com - 22/09/2024 - 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships, Zurich, Switzerland - Women’s Elite Individual Time Trial (ITT) Podium - Grace Brown (Australia) on the podium receiving the Gold Medal and becoming World Champions
Grace Brown (Australia) is awarded the rainbow jersey after winning the elite women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships 2024 (Image credit: Ed Sykes/SWpix.com)

Grace Brown has firmly laid to rest her own questions about just how far she could go in the sport this year, hitting pinnacles of cycling repeatedly by claiming a Monument victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Olympic Games gold in the time trial and now she has also become the first Australian to win the women’s elite world title in the race against the clock. 

“Mentally I know that this is my last season and maybe it’s given me the mental energy to go all-in and focus 100 per cent,” said the FDJ-Suez rider after claiming the women's elite time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in Zurich.

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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.

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