Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-Scott) may have botched the finish on stage 3 of the Tour Down Under, but it takes nothing away from Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors); his win in Port Harbour was one of his finest sprint displays.
The Italian not only timed his late run to the line to perfection, but had the nous to pick his line expertly through the final set of corners, before coming over the top of a shell-shocked Ewan, who eventually faded to third.
In just 200 meters Viviani justified his place at the head of Quick-Step’s sprint train in Australia and ratified his own decision to leave Team Sky, despite having a year left to run on his contract at the British team.
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"It wasn’t easy for me to leave a team like Sky. When I went there I really thought that it was the team of my life but, after the Olympic Games, something changed," Viviani said after his victory.
"My goals were on the road and to win stages at the Giro, at the Tour, and the Vuelta. When I saw the chance to move to Quick-Step, there weren’t many teams that I could leave Sky for. I really needed to take this chance."
Viviani’s switch has been well documented but, as he told Cyclingnews in an exclusive interview earlier this week, he could not pass up the chance of joining the Quick-Step train. Not only do the Belgian team put far more emphasis on one-day racing than Sky, but they also had a ready-made lead-out in place after the departure of Marcel Kittel to Katusha.
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