For eight days there was an unfamiliar stillness across the city of Wollongong, as some of its busiest streets were handed over to the world's best cyclists.
The UCI Road World Championships had arrived in Australia for just the second time as an unknown quantity for its host, the NSW south coast city of Wollongong.
Across the week Australian cyclists collected four medals, one more than the last time the event was hosted on home soil in Victoria more than a decade ago.
