Sam Welsford and Ineos Grenadiers may not have got the win they were looking for on stage 1 of the Tour Down Under, but that perhaps made the victory when it came all the more sweet, especially when on the run into the line, hope was fading as the Australian found himself sitting well back in the bunch with teammates Michał Kwiatkowski and Ben Swift.
"At 2km to go, I was on Kiwa and Swifty, and we were like 80th wheel. And I was thinking, 'There's no chance'," Welsford told reporters after the stage.
