Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM) had her final say on the Bergen World Championships and the controversy that surrounded the selection of the women’s team. Rachel Neylan and Chloe Hosking were added to the team for Norway after appealing the initial selection, which planned to send the team to the Worlds with two riders less than they had qualified.
Cromwell did not make the eventual seven-rider line-up, but expressed her delight that Australia would finally be sending a full roster. “There’s always going to be politics, and decisions that we don’t always like. I just hope that we don’t have to deal with one of these situations again,” Cromwell wrote in a statement on Twitter.
“So great to see that the Australian women are finally given what they deserve in having a full team in Bergen. It took a lot of fighting, a number of people to stand up and highlight the many issues that arose from the initial decision from Cycling Australia and the High Performance management and not letting it stand.”
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It is the first time since 2011 that Cromwell will not take part in the World Championships and only the second time she has missed out since making her debut in the competition in 2009. The 29-year-old said that she had already made her peace with not racing in Bergen earlier in the month and would not have been ready to race at the Worlds if she had finally been added to the list.
“Am I disappointed to not be selected the second time around? If I’m honest, no I’m not,” she wrote. “In my head my season was finished after the Lotto Belgium Tour. I had ruled out any possibility of racing worlds after being informed of the initial decisions. I’ve already switched off, lost my focus and I know that deep down, even if I did get the call up that I wouldn’t have been able to give my absolute best performance.”
After all the drama that's gone on over the last week and worlds selections and all that. Here's my last words before I sign off. http://pic.twitter.com/1r1gY28dmN
— Tiffany Jane (@tiffanycromwell) September 14, 2017
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