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| Residence | Andorra |
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| Club / Team | Garmin-Sharp: United States |
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| Awards and honours | In 2015 he was presented with the Sir Hubert Opperman Medal as Australia's Cyclist of the Year. (abc.net.au, 13 Nov 2015) In 2013 he was named the Channel 7 Sports Star of the Year and South Australian Sports Star of the Year. (adelaidenow.com.au, 22 Nov 2013; heraldsun.com.au, 22 Nov 2013) He was named the 2004 Australian Junior Male Road Cyclist of the Year. (cycling.org.au, 21 Feb 2012) |
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| Occupation | Athlete, Business Owner |
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| Coach from which country? | Australia |
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| Other information | ABANDONED TOUR He pulled out of the 2019 Tour de France on stage 12, and later revealed that he had quit the race to deal with issues in his marriage. "I'd had a pretty frank conversation with my wife not too long before the Tour. It wasn't a good one for me to hear, to be honest. It made me really think about the person I was becoming. I could see myself basically going down a road that I knew if I didn't pull the anchors down, basically pull the handbrake, and just go, 'No, I'm not going down this road' and just change route, it was going to end badly. Maybe not in the next week or two at that point, but I couldn't turn back from it. So I was like, 'It's not worth it, cycling isn't the be all and end all of living and there's a lot more to life that this'. I want to be happy, I don't want to be a miserable person, another statistic of a professional athlete who's gone through a divorce with a kid that's less than a year old. I thought, 'There's more to life than that, I'm not going down that road, I'm out'. And I just pulled into the feed zone." (stickybottle.com, 25 Apr 2020) OCCUPATION He owns a small vineyard in Adelaide Hills, SA, Australia. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Aug 2020) |
| Injuries | He injured his hip and back after being blown off his bike by the wind during the individual time trial at the 2014 National Championships in Australia. He returned to racing two weeks later. "I considered retirement after this crash. I was so upset with all the hard work, including 10 to 14 hours a day in an altitude tent, only to be unseated by a gust of wind." (velonews.competitor.com, 23 Sep 2015; smh.com.au, 17 Jan 2014) In early 2013 he broke his collarbone and contracted viral meningitis. He recovered in time to compete in the 2013 Tour of California in May. (adelaidenow.com.au, 22 Nov 2013) |
| Other sports | He has competed in track cycling and won a silver medal in team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. He also held the Hour Record for three months during 2015. (rohandennisofficial.com, 07 Jan 2016; cyclingtips.com, 03 May 2015; velonews.competitor.com, 17 Dec 2014) |
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| Languages | English |
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| Hobbies | Real estate. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Aug 2020) |
| Famous relatives | His wife Melissa Hoskins represented Australia in track cycling at the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. (SportsDeskOnline, 28 Apr 2021; cyclingnews.com, 02 May 2017) |
| Ambitions | To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Aug 2020) |
| Sporting philosophy / motto | "The best thing about time trialling is that you can only worry about yourself. You've got to figure out how to get your rear end around that course as fast as possible, and you just hope that it's better than everyone else." (cyclingnews.com, 21 Jan 2020) |
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| Family | Wife Melissa, son Oliver |