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Cadel Evans calls out 'embarrassing' Aussie twist - CtrlF.XYZ

Cadel Evans calls out 'embarrassing' Aussie twist

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Cycling large Cadel Evans has slammed Australia's scant under-23 beingness astatine the UCI Road World Championships arsenic "embarrassing."

The 2011 Tour de France victor is an ambassador for the Wollongong lawsuit and was thrilled with Australia's beardown commencement as Grace Brown claimed metallic successful the elite women's clip proceedings connected Sunday.

But Evans - a roadworthy contention satellite champion successful 2009 - was confused by AusCycling's determination to lone tract riders successful Friday's under-23 men's roadworthy race.

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Matthew Dinham, Dylan George, Dylan Hopkins, Jensen Plowright and Rudy Porter volition situation for the rainbow jersey successful that lawsuit but different it is an under-23 nary show.

Australia's Luke Plapp, who finished 2nd successful past year's men's under-23 clip trial, opted to vie successful the elite clip proceedings instead, finishing 12th.

"In presumption of the under-23s and juniors, they've had a truly pugnacious clip with lockdowns and restrictions, not capable to spell to Europe and person the contention they request for thing similar satellite champs," Evans told Wide World of Sports.

"So they're coming into this connected the backmost ft which is disappointing. It truly shows successful our numbers, successful the under-23s.

"We're the big federation and we embarrassingly don't person overmuch beingness successful the under-23s which personally I find disappointing."

Wollongong contention manager Scott Sunderland besides expressed his bemusement astatine the under-23 attack connected Stan Sport's sum connected Tuesday.

Having voiced his frustration, Evans said Wollongong represented a fantastic accidental to showcase the champion of the athletics a decennary earlier a location Olympics.

"It's a crushed for radical similar myself and the nationalist federation, from present connected out, to truly utilise this satellite championships to look guardant and commencement gathering towards the future," Evans said.

"Obviously Brisbane 2032 and truthful connected is thing that we truly person to beryllium readying profoundly for close now. We had a spot of atrocious luck this year.

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"In the Tour de France for example, our 2 chances for GC (general classification) were progressive successful accidents and they weren't firing astatine the Vuelta (a Espana).

"But Jai Hindley winning the Giro d'Italia, the archetypal Australian to bash so, that was a existent confirmation of years of hard enactment for him.

"He's had a batch of setbacks and adjacent misses truthful that is the item of the twelvemonth truthful acold successful presumption of the nonrecreational ranks. In the women's Grace came through, winning a signifier of the Vuelta and a metallic medal here."

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