The cycling season may be less than a month old but Australia's serial winner Michael Matthews has already added another shiny notch to one of the proudest records in the sport.
While his Jayco AlUla teammates were sweating it out back home at the Tour Down Under, the evergreen 35-year-old 'Bling' was opening up his European account later on Saturday with victory in the Gran Premio Castellon one-day race in Spain.
It meant the Canberra maestro can now make the proud boast that he's won at least one race in every one of his last 17 years as a racer, with the frustrating exception of the COVID-disrupted 2021 campaign when he still had half-a-dozen podium finishes.
