It was an attacking race from the Australian team, who tried hard to animate the elite women’s world championships road race in Wollongong. SBSSportau
Sarah Roy of Australia attacks during the 95th UCI Road World Championships 2022 - Women Elite Road Race a 164,3km one day race., but that belied an attacking performance that aimed to put the squad in with a shot at taking the victory.
“I’m not really disappointed as it was a great ride by the girls and it was the best I could do and we could do on the day,” said Manly. “We were so close to bringing back the group and having a reduced bunch sprint, which is what I wanted for the day but we did the best we could. “We did try to play it aggressive,” said Chapman, “you never know if they’ll let a group get off the front, but there were a few teams with numbers.
“The race panned out opposite to what we expected,” said Brown. “We were all ready for something to happen on Mt Keira, but the race went up there at a really easy pace. We hoped that it would have whittled down each lap, but it sort of stayed as a really big group, then became a really small group.