Grace Brown will be out for Olympic redemption when her Commonwealth Games campaign begins with the individual time trial on Thursday.
The Camperdown export finished just outside the medals in the individual time trial at the Toyko Olympics last year, riding fourth.
She is considered a top contender to complete the 28.8km English course fastest, which starts and finishes in Wolverhampton.
Brown is coming off riding in the first-ever Tour de France Femmes riding for FDJ Suez Futuroscope, where she finished seventh in the mountain classification.
She won the RoadNats Championships' elite and under 23 women individual time trial class back in January before finishing second in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège in Belgium in April.
The event starts Thursday, 7 pm Australian time.
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Meg Saultry
Sports journalist at the Warrnambool Standard, with a strong interest in Australian Rules Football, basketball and women in sport. Email: meg.saultry@austcommunitymedia.com.au | mobile: 0475 949 802
Sports journalist at the Warrnambool Standard, with a strong interest in Australian Rules Football, basketball and women in sport. Email: meg.saultry@austcommunitymedia.com.au | mobile: 0475 949 802
