Australia’s first female Olympic cyclist Julie Speight donating brain for medical research

Women’s sport trailblazer Julie Speight knows success at the elite level relies as much on mental fortitude as it does on physical strength.

Yet the woman who became Australia’s first female Olympic cyclist in 1988 now worries too little attention is paid to the toll cycling takes on the brains of athletes like her.

The former Olympian has promised to donate her brain to medical research, knowing it could one day…