“I can’t believe it. I’ve been so close in the four last sprint I’ve done. But my team never lost faith in me and I never lost faith in my team. I knew if everything was coming together, I could be the fastest on the day. With 10km to go, [lead out man] Jasper [De Buyst] crashed. I was at the back of the bunch, but Roger [Kluge] came back for me and took me back to Dylan Groenewegen’s wheel in the last kilometre. Luckily I had the legs to finish it off. This is a childhood dream come true. There’s no other race that I’ve wanted to win as a kid. The Tour de France is something so distant from Australia, something we watch on TV… it’s fantastic!”
