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BRODIE CHAPMAN

rogression isn’t linear. In principle, I accept this. In practice, it is hard to swallow. I arrived into pro cycling with an embarrassing amount of inexperience. I had every right to feel imposter syndrome in my first race outside Australia. That was Trofeo Alfredo Binda in 2018. The year prior, I did one road race - the

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