Michael Matthews, Australian cycling's perennial winner, has opened his WorldTour account for yet another year, sprinting to victory in the Eschborn-Frankfurt one-day race.
Now 34 but still shining, the man known to his friends and rivals as 'Bling' ended his impressive Spring campaign of one-day races in Europe by demonstrating his enduring quality with a 43rd career victory in the race known as 'the German Classic'.
He's the first Aussie to win the race for 40 years since Phil Anderson sealed back-to-back victories in 1984 and 1985, and it maintained the Canberra star's brilliant record of having won at least one race in each of his last 16 seasons of professional racing except for the COVID-hit 2021 campaign.
