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Aussie cyclist wins bronze in nail-biting finish - CtrlF.XYZ

Aussie cyclist wins bronze in nail-biting finish

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A surging tally from Michael Matthews has earnt the Australian 3rd spot successful a spectacular decorativeness to the UCI Road World Championships successful Wollongong.

Belgium's Remco Evenepoel won the Men's Elite Road Race, completing the 266.9 km contention successful 6:16:8s and leaving the frenetic combat for 2nd successful his wake.

Less than 1 kilometre from the decorativeness line, Mattias Jensen, Lorenzo Rota, Mauro Schmid, and Alexey Lutsenko jockeyed implicit the last 2 places connected the podium.

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The chasing peloton laic different infinitesimal down the group. However, erstwhile the podium contenders began to baulk, the peloton soon recovered themselves successful show of the podium conscionable a fewer 100 metres from the finish.

Jan Tratnik was the archetypal to marque a determination arsenic helium roseate to second, but it was French rider Christophe Laporte who would pb the tightly packed 2nd radical crossed the enactment with Matthews alongside.

The triumph capped disconnected a stellar 2022 for Evenepoel, who lone 2 weeks agone won the Vuelta a España among respective different lawsuit wins this year.

"I deliberation it's thing that I person been dreaming of," said Evenepoel.

"And past now, aft a monument, a large classic, a expansive tour, present satellite champion, I deliberation I won everything I could this year. I deliberation a amended play similar this, I volition ne'er have.

"A large enactment I tin say. I'm not going to spot my furniture I guess."

Evenepoel, who won the inferior 2018 UCI Road World Championships successful Austria, said the apical drawer triumph sits acold supra his past rubric win.

"It's phenomenal," said Evenepoel.

"I cannot comparison this with the juniors. It's 3 much hours of racing. It's much, overmuch harder.

"And besides aft a ace agelong season, it's astonishing to decorativeness similar this. I'm conscionable ace blessed I had the legs today."

The 22-year-old decided to skip distant from the tract with 2 laps remaining, establishing a pb that would stay unchallenged to the end.

Evenepoel had been riding successful tandem with Lutsenko of Kazakhstan, but said helium felt helium had the legs to skip away.

"When you're successful two, you conscionable privation to enactment [together] arsenic agelong arsenic possible," helium explained.

"I felt rather rapidly that I was stronger than Alexey and I conscionable wanted to spell on due to the fact that determination was nary clip to discarded connected a circuit similar this.

"The past time, the ascent was ace hard. I could consciousness my legs really, truly explode. I cognize connected the apical it was astir implicit and it was a agelong downhill, past a 5km level portion down to the finish.

"They ever came to archer maine that my vantage was getting bigger and bigger, truthful that's wherefore I kept pushing. It's a World Championship, you don't to suffer immoderate second, you conscionable privation to triumph the jersey if you're successful the presumption for it."

The 2023 UCI Road World Championships volition signifier portion of the all-new UCI Cycling World Championships.

The UCI Cycling World Championships volition beryllium held each 4 years successful the twelvemonth anterior to the Summer Olympic Games.

The inaugural variation volition instrumentality spot successful Glasgow, Scotland connected August 3-13 and includes the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and UCI Track Cycling World Championships among different titles.

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