Matthe𒅌ws still adamant Austraဣlian tactics were flawed
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Michael Matthews (Australia) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Michael Matthews sprints to second and Sim꧙on Gerrans to sixth for Austral💯ia (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Simon Gౠerrans will be playing the support role today (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
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Michael Matthews (Australia) was betting on a sprint finish but not on Peter Sagan successfully att🌃acking (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Micha🌊el Matthews (Australia) won the silver medal (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Matthews has played down the notion that there's animosity between himself and teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Gerrans stemming from the pair's performance in the World C༺hampionships road race last month.
With Peter Sagan taking a solo victory, Matthews won the sp🐼rint for the silver medal but was left disappointed by the lack of clear designation of which rider was Australia's team leader and protected 🌞rider.
"I think we were sprinting against each other unfortunately," he told Cyclingnews when asked if he had received any support from Gerrans - also a teammate at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica-GreenEdge. "I would have liked the full 💟support 🍸but it is what it is."
Former cyclist Robbie McEwen spoke in the aftermath about a rift between the pair and suggested the two could not cooperate properly together in the same team. However, Matthews, speaking to Fairfax Media on Thursdayꦯ, believes the air has been cleared and there is no lingering issue betwe🅰en the pair.
"I don't regret anything I said.&n🦂bsp;I think I said what needed to be said, and we talked after the race and cleared it all up," said Matthews.
"With what Robbie said about a rift, I think it's all cleared now. Everyone's said what they've wanted to say… we're all professional bike riders, we're all there for a reason: we all want to win when there's an opportunity to win. I wasn't too happ✱y about the comment because obviously we're both winners, me and Simon, so💯 we both saw an opportunity to win the world championship, so we both wanted to go for it.
"I don♕'t think it's goin✃g to create any barrier between me and Gerrans. It's all sorted, we both respect each other as riders, so I think we just move on and hopefully achieve more goals."
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Despite being keen to move on and consign the episode in the past, Matthews is still trenchant in his belief that the Australian approach to the Worlds race was wrong and hopes the situatio🥂n won't come to pass again.
"I think what I've got to take out of it is that my performance was really good. I did everything that I said I was going to do in the race. I was going really well but I mis▨sed the move of Sagan, which was the key move in the end," said Matthews.
"The sprint was the way it was… so now we just move on to nex꧟t year and hopefully we don't make the same mist𓂃ake again."
