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Grace Brown at Christian Cowan SS 22

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Anna Henderson, Grace Brown & Chloe Dygert Filippo Ganna, Remco Evenepoel & Wout van Aert ‹ Paris 2024 Olympics - Women's & Men's ITT › 📸 by Jan Woitas/Getty Images

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Grace Brown at Christian Cowan F/W 22

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A peloton without Grace Brown won't be as interesting, but we think she has a lot to bring to her new role as the president of The Cyclists' Alliance.

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olympic gold and world championships is one hell of a retirement party

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INSIDE TOUR DE FRANCE - EP 1

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Grace Brown by Frazer Harrison

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Grace Brown at PatBo, Spring 2022

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Audrey Cordon Ragot - best time at intermediate point for 3 secs 🇫🇷❤️

Grace Brown - best time at intermediate point with 29 secs over Audrey 😳👏

Marlen Reusser - best time at intermediate point with 27 secs!!! over Grace 🫢🙌

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Ifrah Quaasim , Mammina Aker , Ajak Dhieu and Grace Brown by Jamel Shabazz for W Magazine December 2023

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Grace Brown at Kim Shui FW 23

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Believe it or not, the Olympic individual time trial race is this weekend! The course is a very urban course through Paris, a very different course than many ITT races. It will be scenic and beautiful, but also very technical. Early reports of teams that have reconned the course say it is very slick from road traffic, so it may favor riders with well-honed bike handling skills.

Here are a few of the top contenders:

Chloe Dygert, the defending Olympic champion in her trademark pink socks or shoes, will be competing, as well as American triathlete phenom Taylor Knibb. We haven't heard much from Dygert lately as she prepared on her own, but we know she's fast. We also know that Knibb is very powerful, though this technical course probably doesn't suit her.

Australian Grace Brown, in her final professional season, will be really targeting this race, and she has looked really good this season. She's a veteran and will be wanting to take home gold in her final year of racing, and she's another top pick.

Another rider looking very good right now, who actually beat Brown by one second in the opening ITT of the Giro d'Italia Women, is Italy's own Elisa Longo Borghini. She will hope to carry her peak form into this weekend.

We don't know what to expect from Anna Henderson, who has broken her collarbone twice this year (ouch!) but is a regular ITT contender for Great Britain and could top the podium on a good day.

Speaking of injury, we would probably rule out Ellen van Dijk after her broken ankle in the first stage of the Vuelta Feminina six weeks ago, if she wasn't Ellen van Dijk. She has been out of racing but still targeting the Olympics, and she has to be considered a top contender.

Another serious Dutch contender is Demi Vollering, who sat out the Giro in favor of the Olympics and the upcoming Tour de France Femmes. She looked in fine form during the spring stage races, and is a regular threat in the ITT.

Finally, some names that won't be competing: Swiss time-trial powerhouse Marlen Reusser will miss the Olympics this year due to lingering issues from a viral infection last month. And Slovenian road race and time trial champ Urška Žigart was curiously not selected for the Slovenian Olympic team, which certainly raised some eyebrows.

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