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Tomic leads London charge
Cycling Central interviews Josie in the lead up to the London Olympics.
Josephine Tomic’s experience on the track will prove an invaluable tool for Australia’s women heading into the London Olympics as the competition for spots intensifies.
And while there’s pressure on the seven women eligible for selection in Australia’s team pursuit squad, Tomic explained that the atmosphere is conducive to overcoming the hurdles en route to London qualification.
That qualification process started two weeks ago at the Astana round of the UCI Track World Cup, where the Australian trio failed to make it to the medal finals. Although with another round of the series approaching there’s a chance for the other four women in the group to make an impact in Cali, Colombia.
“For the Colombia World Cup it’ll be myself, Annette Edmondson, Mel Hoskins and Sarah Kent attending,” Tomic said.
“We came into the track program a little later this year due to a combination of road commitments or injury. Ash Akudinoff, Kate Bates and Amy Cure went to Astana for the first round of the World Cup and consequently they started to train a little earlier. That’s the core of seven women, which will be whittled down gradually until there are just four before the Olympics.
“[Australian women’s track endurance coach] Gary Sutton hasn’t given too much away and he doesn’t really know who the prime candidates are yet because it’s still early and so much can change between now and the Olympics.”
As the standard of the women’s team pursuit has been raised, the pressure has intensified on the Australian women to perform against an ever-deepening international field – it’s a different proposition to competing in the event when it was introduced just over two years ago.
“I remember two years ago, we’d go to a World Cup assured of getting into the finals for medals but at this last World Cup unfortunately we didn’t make it – that shows how the standard has been raised and we’re now the underdogs,” Tomic said.
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