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Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s riders made a near-perfect end to the 2017 road racing season with second and third places in the new Tour of Guangxi Women’s Elite World Challenge in Guilin, China. Australian track specialist Amy Cure crossed the line just millimetres behind race winner Maria Vittoria Sperotto (BePink Cogeas), while former two-time Junior World Champion was in third place just behind. 
“It was awesome,” Cure told the Eurosport cameras afterwards. “It was quite a hard finish and it didn’t quite go to plan, but it was awesome to get second and third up there. “We knew that, with coming here with three riders, and with Orica being the one of the most experienced teams out there. We knew that coming with three riders we could leave it up to teams like Orica to chase.” The flat 110km circuit race saw the peloton stay largely together, but a small breakaway managed to escape in the closing kilometres. The gap was never more than a minute, however, and the sprinters’ teams pulled it back in plenty of time for the finish. 
“Considering we’re only with three, we really pulled together as a team, so to get second and third… we’re so happy with that,” Garner said. “It started off pretty steadily, with everybody just getting into it, and then when we made the turn it was quite full on,” she explained. “There were a lot of attacks going, but we were just trying to sit in the wheels and save as much energy as possible. “We didn’t know how our fitness was going to be coming into this - we’re kind of in our off-season now - but we did what we could, and to get two of us on the podium, we should be happy with that.” 
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