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But I mean, most professional sports are done in winter. Cricket is done in summer cos it's mostly standing around. The same is true of most athletics sports. The throws and jumps spend far more time standing around than actually competing. Heck, even the shorter runs that's relatively true of. It's only the middle distance runs where colder weather is gonna make an appreciable difference to performance. (And longer non-track runs...but those are usually done at colder times of year.) Swimming, of course, is done in the water, so being a summer sport is way better.

Cycling's a rather niche sport in this country, but yeah it's probably one that would benefit from being done in late autumn or even winter, rather than in summer. But to be fair, it's kind of an all-year sport in this country. The Tour Down Under is on now with the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race soon to follow, but there are crit races most weeks of the year, but there are other events all around. Grafton to Inverell is in March, the Brisbane Cycling Festival (including its flagship Tour de Brisbane) is in April, and Melbourne's Around the Bay is in October.

Triathlons are mostly a summer affair, but I think that's basically because of the swim.