Michael Matthews has revealed how his dream of winning the Milan-Sanremo 'Monument' classic may have been scuppered by a touch of ill-fortune - and his own sense of fair play.
The 33-year-old Jayco AlUla rider, one of the country's very finest riders for more than a decade, was still left reflecting Sunday on what might have been as he missed out in winning the biggest race of his life the previous day in Italy by just a few centimetres.
Being edged out by Belgian Jasper Philipsen in a photo-finish on Saturday prompted tears from the tough Aussie, as he pondered how close he had been to achieving his career-long ambition of winning one of the sport's five biggest one-day races.
