After a fairytale week at the road world championships Australian cycling’s ‘veteran debutant’ climber eyes loftier peaks
Lucy Kennedy recently earned a new nickname. According to Cycling Australia’s technical director Brad McGee, the Queensland rider is now known as “the cork”. The moniker was coined after Kennedy’s debut season in the professional peloton, where even two major crashes didn’t get her down. “She’s so buoyant – nothing can derail her,” he chuckles.
It has been a baptism of fire for Kennedy. While most elite cyclists take up the sport early and progress to the professional ranks by their early 20s, Kennedy did not touch a bike until she was 24 – after injuries stopped her from running. She balanced a career as a traffic modeller with rapid progression through the domestic ranks, before signing with Mitchelton-Scott late last year.
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