Bobridge, who won the under-23 men's time trial at the World Road Race championships in Mendrisio yesterday, believes Australia can regain the dominance they held over the track events at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
 

Bobridge said: "The GB team has upset the track hierarchy for the past couple of years but the support we're getting now is going to help bring us back on top.
 

"Give us three years and we'll be back to show that we're the best trackies in the world."
 

Bobridge recently signed a two-year deal with professional road team Garmin Slipstream, whose lead rider is Britain's triple Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins, and said the United States-based team's willingness to support his track ambitions with Australia was paramount to his decision.
 

The 20-year-old was part of the team that helped Australia to the bronze medal race-off in the team pursuit at last year's Olympic Games in Beijing.
 

Apart from losing that match to New Zealand, it was Britain's haul of seven gold medals from a total of 10 on offer on the track that left the Australians hurting most.
 

The victory in Switzerland caps a remarkable year for the 20-year-old, who also won silver in the individual pursuit at the World Track Championship held in Poland in March as well as taking out the under-23 time trial and road race crowns at the Australian Championships.
 

He went one better yesterday than his individual pursuit silver medal, when he covered the 33.2-kilometre road time trial course in 40min 44.79sec, more than 18 seconds faster than silver medallist Nelson Oliveira of Portugal.
 

But the South Australian said the track events at the 2012 Games remained a "big goal".
 

His next assignment, however, will be trying to help Australia's under-23 men's road race team to a world title on Saturday.


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