The day after Mat Hayman won Paris-Roubaix, he left Ghent where his Orica-GreenEdge team had been based to return to his Belgian home in Veldwezelt, Lanaken near the Dutch province of Limburg. He was just coming to terms with the enormity of his feat on Sunday.
However, Hayman, 37, had not missed the opportunity to enjoy the moment. The night before, the Australian celebrated the win with his teammates, the team staff and the volunteers they had recruited for the classics to provide drinks and spare wheels at various vantage points.
But despite the glow of being the Paris-Roubaix champion, Hayman knew that in his next scheduled race, Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl in Belgium, he would be expected to resume his role as a team helper.
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“I haven’t heard otherwise so it’s business as usual, and Wednesday I will be back on the start line at Brabantse Pijl,” Hayman told Cyclingnews on the drive home, while the famed cobblestone trophy for winning Paris-Roubaix lay under the back seat of his car between a bottle of champagne and beer and under the winner’s bouquet.
“I normally only get one or two goes a year to ride for myself. Michael Matthews has run second there two years in a row.
“That is one of his big targets. He is a big favourite. That’s fine with me. Hopefully I can carry this form in and he can get a big win that he has been looking to in that race. It’s something he really enjoys.”
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