Young Australiꦗan still aiming for first win with Orica-Green🌄Edge
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Caleb Ew𓃲an (Australia) proved himself the fastest finisher in the peloton but Sven Erik Bystrom's attack saw🎐 the Norwegian win gold (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Luka Mezgec leads Tyler Farrar in the sprint (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Around the final 90-degree right-hander 600m the line, the 20-year-old was in fine position locked onto the wheel of his final lead-out man. With a brief look over his shoulder at around 300m to go, he launched his sprint - too early - and was swarmed by a group of more experienced sprinters. He finished 10th on the stage, which💯 was w🍷on by Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp). Chalk it down to inexperience.
Back at the GreenEdge car, he was consoled by teammates but his dis🎉appointment was clear.
"I had a perfect lead out from the guys," he said afterwards. "I just went a little bit too early and 50m from the line I j𝔉ust ran out of legs an🍃d got jumped."
Ewan praised his teammates for the work done over the picturesque 176km sta💧ge through the ꦆYan Mountains.
"It was a pretty tough stage but I felt like I had good legs,"ಌ he said. "The roads here 💟are quite fast and the guys kept me out of trouble all day, so I felt pretty strong."
It’s the second time at the Tour of Beijing that the youngster has been within a whisker of claiming his maiden win. On stage 1 he finished second to💦 Luka Mezgec (Giant-S♏himano) in Zhangjiakou.
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Reflecting on his first Tour with the Orica-GreenEdge squad, Ewan said: "I’m pretty happy with it, but it’s still disappointing because I got a perfect lead-out and the other day I came pretty close to ⛄winning.
"It’s 𒆙a little bit disappointing to be so close, but my time will come I’m sure."
Ewan will likely get another shot on stage෴ 5 from Tiananmen Square to the Bird’s Nest Stadium.
Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in 🌳the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine Ride for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling as a staff writer in November 2010.
