Simon Gerrans doesn’t even attempt to hide his disappointment for missing Milan-San Remo, so keen is he to return to racing after his comeback from a previously fractured shoulder lasted 110 kilometres before he crashed out again at Strade Bianchi in Italy on March 20.
“I am a big cycling fan, but it was hard watching when you know you can be out there and mixing it up and that sort of thing,” The Orica-GreenEdge rider told Cyclingnews. “It is difficult to watch a race like that, but I was definitely on the edge of my seat like everyone else.”
Gerrans, 34, was not talking from his European base in Monaco, but from Girona in Spain. Afterwards he went for a two hour ride to test how his fractured elbow suffered in his Strade Bianchi crash has recovered, and then he returned to confirm that he is confident of making a second comeback at the Vuelta Ciclista a La Rioja on April 5, followed by the Vuelta al Pais Vasco that starts the next day and finishes on April 11.

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But Milan-San Remo was still on Gerrans’ mind: both for how the race panned out for his 24 year-old Orica-GreenEdge teammate Michael Matthews, who finished third, and for what he gleaned from the race that was won by German John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin).
“Michael gave himself every opportunity,” Gerrans said. “He rode a really good position on the Poggio and the descent and was right where he needed to be at the finish. But when you look at it, he was just out-powered by a couple of guys [Degenkolb and Katush’s Alexander Kristoff] there in the finale.
“Kristoff led the sprint out and he hung on for second and Degenkolb came from a fair way back pushing the wind. The guys that were in front of him were pretty strong guys. He probably missed a bit in the finale, but under the circumstances it looked like he did everything he could.”
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