{"id":732538,"date":"2026-06-12T18:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732538\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:48:17","slug":"former-professional-cyclist-rohan-dennis-reported-for-driving-while-disqualified-abc-understands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/732538\/","title":{"rendered":"Former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis reported for driving while disqualified, ABC understands"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ABC understands former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis has been reported for driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n

In a statement, SA Police said they apprehended a 36-year-old Medindie man just after 4pm on Thursday, after observing him driving a vehicle with two children as passengers.<\/p>\n

They said the man’s vehicle had been impounded for 28 days and he would be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n

Last year, father-of-two Dennis, 36, was handed a suspended sentence<\/a> for the events leading up to the death of his Olympian wife Melissa Hoskins in December 2023.<\/p>\n

Dennis was handed a 17-month prison term \u2014 but that sentence was suspended on a two-year good-behaviour bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was also banned from driving for five years.<\/p>\n

\"Rohan<\/p>\n

Rohan Dennis retired from professional cycling in 2023 after a stellar road and track cycling career. (ABC News: Stephen Opie)<\/p>\n

Guilty plea over crash<\/p>\n

Dennis pleaded guilty in 2024<\/a> to an aggravated charge of creating likelihood of harm over Ms Hoskins’s death.<\/p>\n

Ms Hoskins was struck by a car driven by Dennis, on the street in front of the couple’s home in Medindie, in Adelaide’s inner north.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors dropped a charge<\/a> of dangerous driving causing death and an aggravated charge of driving without due care.<\/p>\n

Ms Hoskins was a two-time Olympian and a renowned road and track cyclist who represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n

Dennis also competed in two Olympics.<\/p>\n

He won a stage at the Tour de France in 2015, as well as a team time trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ABC understands former professional cyclist Rohan Dennis has been reported for driving while disqualified. In a statement,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,6974,635,35024,263601,263602,263599,263604,263603,263600,82],"class_list":["post-732538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-disqualified-driving","tag-impounded","tag-medindie","tag-melissa-hoskins","tag-olympian","tag-rohan-dennis","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}