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An Ardennes horizon and the easing Olympic obsession – Amanda Spratt

SINTKWINTENSLENNIK BELGIUM APRIL 10 Amanda Spratt of Australia and Team Lidl Trek prior to the 9th De Brabantse Pijl La Fleche Brabanconne 2024 Womens Elite a 1349km one day race from SintKwintens Lennik to Overijse on April 10 2024 in SintKwintens Lennik Belgium Photo by Luc ClaessenGetty Images

As Amanda Spratt sat in Australia at the start of a new season, surveying the landscape of the year behind and what was on the horizon for the season ahead, the now rapidly approaching Ardennes Classics once again stood out.

The 2023 season has traversed some rocky terrain for both the Lidl-Trek team and the Australian rider – “unsatisfying I think is the way I’d describe it” said Spratt. Illness played on her season though it was not without some high points and indications that she had well and truly built back from the problems she faced with Iliac artery endofibrosis

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