In 2022, Rohan Dennis looked to be on the cusp of victory at the Tour de Romandie, playing his hand to perfection right through from the prologue to the sprint stages and a brutal day in the mountains where he found an impressive new limit on the climbs.
In the end all, that stood between the Australian and overall victory at the six-day WorldTour race was a 16km outing in his favoured discipline, the time trial, but everything that had gone in to maintaining his lead through the preceding days turned a strength into a weakness.
