Rohan Dennis put in a commanding performance in the Australian national time trial championships on Thursday afternoon to claim what had previously been an elusive green and gold jersey.
Post-race, Dennis told reporters that 2016 will be the final year he focuses exclusively on time trialling before switching focus to riding GC in Grand Tours. Before he makes the change though, Dennis is hungry for the Rio Olympics gold medal against the clock and a strong performance at the Doha Worlds in October.
"Rio, that's my big goal this year. Then there's the Qatar World time trial as well and really I am looking to turning more to the GC side of things after Rio so I have one more year of pure time trial then I'd like to take the route that Wiggo did," Dennis said of his next career objective and how Bradley Wiggins will serve as the example to follow.
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There was no denying that Dennis was revelling in his first elite time trial title but the 25-year-old was also keeping it in perspective, considering that it was only in July he set the fastest ever time in a Tour de France time trial to also snare the first yellow jersey of the race.
"The Tour de France is the ultimate unfortunately," he said of which jersey meant more. "This is a great honour to wear green and gold, I wish I could take yellow in the green and gold, but the Tour de France was huge for me. It was my first professional win in a time trial and yellow jersey at the biggest race in the season is a bit hard to top really."
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