Mꦇichael Matt🐻hews on the podium after stage 20 of the Tour de France
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Michael Matthews (Sunweb) (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Sunweb's Michael Matthews and Warren 🅘Barguil in th༒eir respective jersey on the final stage of the Tour de France (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Michael Matthews (Austra🔴lia) with his bronze medal (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
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Michael Matthews on the podium after his RideLondon Clas🐭sic third-place fi🅠nish (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
It was only the second time that Matthews has started the Race of the Falling Leaves, a curious choice for a sprinter, especially with a fast-man's race on tap in Paris-Tours the next day, but he explained that he was in Italy to work for the teammates who helped him to two stage wins in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France and the overall points ✅jersey, in addition to stages of the Pais Vasco and Tour ♛de Suisse.
"After all the support the team's given me this year to do all the races I wanted to do, it's nice to come back here and support the guys who have supported me," Matthews told Cyclingnews in Bergamo.
"I also have to race China in two weeks, so it's good just to keep the legs open in these races to keep going through t🍨o China."
After his surprise win in the gre🔜en jersey competition in the Tour, Matthews continued to pos🌊t strong results, including third at RideLondon and the GP de Quebec, and, after being part in Sunweb's victory in the team time trial World Championships, he came third in the road race behind Peter Sagan and Alexander Kristoff.
Matthews did not finish Il Lombardia or Tre Valli Varesine, and said the variable form is typical for t🌄he time of🐻 year.
"It's up and down at the end of the season, you have your good days and bad days,"ꦆ he sa🍸id.
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But the year has been amazing for his Sunweb team, which posted the overall victory in the Giro d'Italia with Tom Dumoulin, two more stage wins in the Tour de France and the mountains classification by Warren Barguil, and a fourth place overall in the Vuelta a Espana by Wilco Kelderman. The team showed its cohesion by win💖ning bot🌠h the men's and women's team time trial in Bergen.
"I think it's something the ൩team's been working towards for such a long time now to have a season like this. For it all to come to a close the way it has, it's been pretty special," Matthews said.
The Australian hinted tha🍒t next year's schedule might look a little different, and after a fourth place in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, we could see Matthews shifting his goals more toward the Ard꧋ennes.
"I think we'll try to set the goals differently next year and see what else ꦑwe can achieve, maybe not go for the same goals agai💜n but for something different," he said.
