The wry smile that breaks through the bearded face of Matt Goss when you refer to his lack of victories in recent years reflects a certain acceptance that it is a question he will continue to face until he gets return to the winner’s podium.
But as the Australian, a 2012 Milan-San Remo and 2011 world championship silver medallist, looks ahead to this year and his 10th season as a professional cyclist, and he says that he still has that winning spark in his heart, soul and legs.
“I have got to, otherwise it is too hard to get on the bike every day, isn’t it?” Goss (ONE Pro Cycling), 29, told Cyclingnews at the Tour de Langkawi. The race finishes Wednesday and is his second race of the year, with the Dubai Tour [Feb 3-6] being his first.
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For Goss, joining the British Pro Continental ONE Pro Cycling team this year does not carry the pressure of being the marquee rider on whom expectation is to win, win and win, as he had at Orica-GreenEdge with which he was a founding member of after racing with HTC-Highroad with whom he won Milan-San Remo. But apart from a stage win in the 2012 Giro d’Italia with Orica-GreenEdge, Goss failed to match the winning expectations put on him as their highest paid rider.
The Tasmanian rider’s last individual victory was in the first week of January in 2014 when he won stage 2 of the Mitchelton Bay Classic criterium series in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. And before that his last UCI win was on March 7, 2013 and in stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico – notwithstanding, in July that same year he rode in the Orica-GreenEdge stage 4-winning team time trial in Nice at the Tour de France.
Goss left the Australian team to race with the South African MTN-Qhebeka (now Dimension Data) team in 2014 before signing with ONE Pro Cycling on a one-year deal.
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