Simon Clarke

I mean...

The legend, that is Simon Clark, set it all up for me.

And thankfully, he speaks Italian.

And is that just

I can see how it can be pretty crushing if you're really not doing anything or struggling in the races and plus all the other adversity that comes with living on the other side of the world in the country, you don't speak the language.

But...

Simon Clarke said to me, either this experience will make you or it'll break you.

And really, I look back on it and I think it was the best thing for me to do it.

... are out the front, and Van der Poel comes home back and launches over the top and takes the win, gets to wear the rainbow again for another year.

And what's that Simon Clarke second then, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

That's first.

I mean, we obviously didn't have Strava at the time, so we just needed to find roads.

And I think at the time there was a few other Aussie cyclists living around close by, like Simon Clark.

He was close by.

Kadel Evans.