The sight of Alistair Brownlee jogging around his home city last summer, his face contorted with pain and an acceptance that he was no longer good enough, jarred with everything we had come to revel in about this remarkable athlete.
Lizzie Deignan wants to ride on to Tokyo 2020 to erase the 'horrendous' Olympic memories of Rio.
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