Hundreds of people have paid tribute to Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins in Ballarat, holding a minute’s silence yesterday for the 32yo. Hoskins died after she was hit by a ute near her home in Adelaide on 30 December – some grim details of what happened were published on Saturday. Her husband – fellow champion cyclist Rohan Dennis – faces driving charges over her death and has been bailed to appear in court in March. Yesterday, riders at the AusCycling Road National Championships in Ballarat remembered Hoskins as “a world champion and a world record breaker”. “I think the important thing is to wrap our arms around her closest friends, her family and her young, beautiful children,” Australian cyclist David McKenzie said. The women’s Tour Down Under starts in Hoskins’ adopted home state of South Oz on Friday, and a minute’s silence ahead of the start will be observed there, too.