Wiasak on right track

REBECCA Wiasak is heading quickly in the right direction for someone who thinks she’s lived life in reverse.

The two-time track world champion is Australia’s Commonwealth Games cycling debutant’s late bloomer at 33.

The sports media and law graduate from Canberra originally harboured dreams of representing her country in athletics before a journalism career got in the way.

Admitting that she made a “pretty rubbish sports journo”, Wiasak arrived as a cyclist via triathlon and announced herself with individual pursuit gold at the 2015 and 2016 world championships.

Wiasak forms part of a sixpronged women’s endurance track squad vying for four Games team pursuit spots.

She says her late entry into the sport has helped deal with the pressure to perform.

“I wonder if I’d still be riding now if I had started earlier,” she said. “I lived life in reverse.”