Bicycling Australia

A One-Track Mind

THE 27-YEAR-OLD IS FINISHING UP with professional road team Wiggle High5 to focus 100% on achieving her and her country’s top goal: an Olympic gold track medal.

That’s right, Nettie is moving back home to Australia with a one track mind: quite literally, the velodrome.

On the day of her interview with Bicycling Australia, she had been out on the road training for the world team time trial championships and said she was enjoying riding in the sunshine on '”quiet roads with a combination of hills, flat roads, mountains and lakes”.

After living in Girona for five successive European winters, she feels very much at home there. But she is equally at home in Adelaide, her base with the Australian Institute of Sport, and is looking forward to coming home and

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