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As 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) readies for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:final races of his career, the 37-year-old winner of the 2011 Tour de France and ❀2009 World Championship reflected on his first trip to nationals in Thredbo in 1992 and how the sport has changed over the past 20-plus years.

"I suppose I'm looked at in a different regard by the cycling public now, which is somewhat larger than it was in 1992," the 37-year-old said. "I'm going to Ballarat to ride the best race I can. If🐷 I get a result, that's ♈even better. I'm going there to race well and do my best."

Evans witnessed firsthand just how much the sport has grown during last year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Australian championships, when he finished second on the Buninyong course behin🌃d Simonﷺ Gerrans.

"What was remarkable, andꦛ my greatest memory of the race, was when we were riding near the top of the climb and it had the ambiance of a big European race," he said. "There was a real passion for the racing, people were happy to be out there, it was a beautiful day, and they had created a unique ambiance in a one-day race right there in Ballarat.

"Compliments to Ballarat fo🦩r being a host city and being a supporter of cycling."

Evans is keen to go out with another Australian championship, although the success he has found since his first attempt in 1992 could make the t🔴ask all the more difficult, a fact he acknowledged this week.

“Today the chances of victory are probably the same as in 1992, maybe even less, because I’m so watched now as a rider,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to win the 🔴road race at the national championships, but I’m just 💟realistic about it. I’m going to be the most watched guy out there.

In Rohan Dennis and neo-pro Campbell Flakemore, Evans will have just two teammates in the road race, while Orica-GreenEdge is bringing nine. Nevertheless, the cou🍸rse suits Evans well.

"It's a 💟solid course but the climb is still a fair way from the finish," Evans said. "But at this time of year 183 kilometers on that course is a hard race. It’s going to be a solid day on the bike. If I go in and have a hard race but don’t get a result, well, it's good training towards the Tour Down Under. But if I can race hard and get a result, that’s even better."

A win this week and another championship jersey would provide a storybook ending for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Evans' career, but he said this week that he doesn't believe i🥀n "fairytales."

"We just have to be realistic about these things," he said. "We'll prepare as well as we can, do the best race we can, and the result will tell theꦺ 🍌story."