Silver medal at Worlds comes with no regrets for Ewan
Australian takes silver in Men’s U-23 race
A last minute breakaway by Norway’s Sven Erik Bystrom may have scuppered Australia’s chances of gold in Friday’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:under-23 men's road race, but after taking silver as Australia’s protected riꦓder, Caleb Ewan said he 🐎had no regrets about their collective strategy.
Australia, with very limited help 🎀from some other selections, dominated much of the race, with the clea👍r view of delivering Ewen as rested as possible for a possible bunch sprint. And as Ewan pointed out afterwards, their tactics almost worked out perfectly.
&lꦬdquo;I have no regrets, if we could repeat the race again, I’d say we should do exactly the same thing,” Ewan said afterwards.
“I know it sounds♛ a bit silly because ♔we didn’t win, but with my team on the front, I was protected when we raced through the city. I knew I could take good lines through the corners and we avoided crashes and sudden accelerations.”
“I needed to save my legs for the climb, and I know how hard they rode forཧ me so I could do t꧂hat.”
Ewen said if he c🌄ould have changed one thing in the race, it would have been what happened two kilometres from the line, when his last teammate with him got a mechanical. But he recognised that even so, “the strongest guy won today.”
Australia though were unquestionably the strongest squad, and the future Orica-GreenEdge ⭕rider said he could not thank his teammates enough for the work they did throughout the 182 kilometre race.
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“We went into the race almost 100 percent going for the sprint and the team rode so well, I’m very happy to have a team like that who&rsqu♐o;ll work so much for you.”
“It’s a little bit disappointing not to get the gold, but there’🥀s not much we could do i꧅n the end there.”
Ewan’s experience in criteriums and on the ꦕtrack he𒐪lped him enormously, he said, in the chaotic final dash to the line for the silver medal.
“It’s a 𝔉Worlds sprint, so a lot of guys were taking a lot of risks, but the good thing about coming from Australia is I grew up riding on the track and doing lots of criteriums. So I’m used to that kind of thing, it happens all the time.
“I stayed calmꦉ and stayed in posit🐟ion and went at the perfect time.”
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.