Cyclist Australia

Drifting back to Tokyo

The team at Cyclist hoped that this would be a golden column, reporting about Australian cyclists’ domination in Tokyo’s delayed 2020 Olympics. Well, when it came to gold on two wheels, the only Australian to sing the anthem from the dais was freestyle BMXer Logan Martin.

Disappointingly, we collected only two bronze medals, thanks to Rohan Dennis in the road time trial (an incredible effort, to be fair) and the men’s team pursuit (also an amazing result, considering Alex Porter’s equipment failure left him faceplanting the boards at 65km/h in qualifying).

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