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0:03 What a galah.

Helmets 100% 4% So 4% were from 100%? That makes 96%. Winner.

Don't yuck my yum.

What the hell? No Troy Brosnan, no Connor Fearon... what sort of Australian champs was this? Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery!

@Wyndbrook: Oh. In Australia there's still a rollout limit. Checking now, goes to 19 years. I guess how I wrote the above sounds like rollout was applied to U23, but I was just trying to find an example of an age-based difference in rules.

@big-red: It is what I deserve.

Mikey Haderer. The guru!

@sonuvagun: Oh, I see. Interesting thought. I highly doubt that U23 have a different testing regime for three reasons: 1. the testers get numbered vials so they shouldn't know anything about the individual, including age/age category. 2. the WADA list of banned substances doesn't specify that some substances are prohibited in certain age groups but not others whereas, say, they do specify that some substances are banned from some sports but not others e.g. beta blockers are banned in concentration sports like archery and motor racing, which means they are not disallowed in running (my reading of it). 3. U23 is supposed to prepare juniors for elite, so if I was Lord Commander of cycling I'd make sure they were treated just as strictly for educational purposes. I'd say no. 2 carries the most weight and would be the correct answer. I do know that junior riders have maximum gear sizes for road and track. That's the only thing I can think of where age is factored in to some sort of limitation in cycling. Happy to be corrected on any of this.

@sonuvagun: There is lots of testing in U23s. I know one and they have lost count of how many times they've been tested (came up in a conversation about dehydration from racing - Australia being quite hot sometimes).

The start was pretty exciting! https://www.instagram.com/p/CsIrt9LgrhY/?hl=en