Australia's top road cyclist Grace Brown misses out on victory in the Women's Tour in Britain, losing by just one second after a week in the saddle.
Australia's top road cyclist Grace Brown has been pipped for victory in the prestigious Women's Tour, losing by just one second after a week-long, 720-kilometre slog on British roads.Katarzyna Niewiadoma : + 5 secondsBrown, the top-rated Aussie rider — man or woman — in the UCI world rankings, missed out to Italian star Elisa Longo Borghini after Saturday's dramatic sixth and final 143km stage from Chipping Norton to Oxford.
Camperdown's 29-year-old Brown, leading overnight but locked on the same time as Longo Borghini in the general classification, looked as if she could be heading for her first major stage-race victory when she picked up three bonus seconds for winning an intermediate sprint. But Longo Borghini was rewarded for her attacking intent over the final kilometre, battling to take third place behind stage winner Lorena Wiebes, which earned her the four-second bonus to snatch the one-second win after more than 19-and-a-quarter hours of riding over six days.It was so close that even Brown's FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope teammates thought she'd won after they crossed the line, only for the frustrating news to gradually make its way through the peloton.
It was an anti-climactic finale for Brown, who could only finish 12th on the stage as Trek Segafredo's Longo Borghini added to her considerable list of triumphs.
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