A dive city and damp wilderness: How Brown overcame doubt to win Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Retirement means Grace Brown won’t defend her title on Sunday, but she weighs in on who can end the spring classics triumphant.

Almost a year on from becoming the first Australian woman to win one of cycling’s Monuments – a handful of one-day races considered the oldest, hardest, longest and most prestigious on the calendar – Grace Brown is adjusting to retirement.

“It was actually nice to have an Easter compared to pretty much always being at a race,” she tells Spokes. “I didn’t…