Goss unlikely to risk racing Paris-Roubaix with Giro ambitions
O𝓀rica GreenEdge hope unlucky as Howard conti🅷nues to shine
Having targeted Gent-Wevelgem for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matt Goss, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica GreenEdge's one bright spot on the results sheet was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Leigh Howard in ✅25th place, 🍌with his compatriot failing to finish in the highly selective race along with the rest of the team.
In summation, Goss explained that Sunday's shortened 75th edition of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gent-Wevelgem "wasn't an ideal day."
Caught out🎐 on the first ascent of the Kemmel and without a representative in the breakaway, Goss, Howard and Sebastian Langeveld made it back to the front group just ahead of the second ascent but for Goss, the energy expenditure on trying to get back on had come at a cost.
"I'd thrown away my jacket with all my food in it so I ended up chasing around everyone for food most of the day and I ran out of gas a little bit at the end," he told Cyclingnews.
"It's always tricky a race like this, especially the way it started with no neutral and the cross-winds," the 26-year-old Tasmanian continued. "Everyone has thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe same idea. There are 180 bike riders and you have to be in the first 20 or 💖30 guys there and if you weren't then your race is over pretty much straight away."
With Grand Tour ambitions again on the horizon for the sprinter, where this year he'll be aiming to add to his two 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia stage victories and finally claim his first stage win at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, the next steps for Goss need to be carefully considered. Already lucky to escape a more serious injury having crashed in the cold and wet at Milan-San Remo last week, plans to race 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix in a fortnight's time may have to be shelved.
"I think at this point Fl🍎anders is the next race, I'll do that and then probably have a break," Goss said, with the Tour of Romandie on his calendar in the lead up to the Giro.
The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inb💜ox!
"I wouldn't mi🎃nd it [Roubaix] but it's a bit of a risk for the team as well. If we're going to be going to the Giro to try and do well I can't be going to Roubaix. You can crash at any ꦐrace but there's more chance at Roubaix."
As a sports journalist and producer since 1997, Jane has covered Olympic and Commonwealth Games, rugby leꩲague, motorsport, cricket, surfing, triathl꧃on, rugby union, and golf for print, radio, television and online. However her enduring passion has been cycling.
Jane is a former Australian Editor of Cyclingnews from 2011 to 2013 a🥀nd continues to freelance within the cycling industry.