'The amount of young female road riders in the United States has hit a brick wall': Experienced pro Tayler Wiles saddened at state of road cycling in America

Trek-Segafredo's Wiles wants to see a WorldTour event return to her home country

Tayler Wiles
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A mainstay in the elite women's peloton for almost a decade, Tayler Wiles has called on race organisers to bring high-level events back to the United States to arrest the struggling decline in road race participation among young athletes.

In the past five years, gravel racing has boomed in the States as road racing has lost its place as the pre-eminent discipline in the country.

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