BRODIE CHAPMAN

To break through as a professional cyclist, the theory goes, you need to have been racing at a high level from when you are a teenager. By age 22, most young riders have long been signed up to a top team. There are, of course, those few who prove that another way is possible. One is Brodie Chapman, the Australian who didn’t even start riding a road bike until she was working in a bike shop aged 20.

Brodie’s development was rapid in the