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TDU Video: Thunder from Down Under, Simon Gerrans

  • By Anthony Tan
  • Published Jan. 24, 2012

Australian champion two weeks ago, Tour Down Under champion last week. Simon Gerrans is on a roll.

In this exclusive interview with one of the world’s best one-day riders, Gerrans talks about his last two years riding at Team Sky; his burning ambition to win one of the three Ardennes Classics (where, following his TDU victory, his odds have shortened from ‘possibly’ to ‘probably’) and how to beat Philippe Gilbert; on a course tailor-made for someone like him, this year’s road world championships in Holland; and whether in the near future, he’d consider targeting week-long stage races such as Paris-Nice or the Tour de Romandie.

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Realizing life in advertising was nothing like Mad Men and buoyed by the Olympic Games in his Australian hometown of Sydney, Anthony Tan turned his back on a lucrative copywriting career in 2000 in pursuit of something more cerebral. Combining wordsmithing with his experiences as an A-Grade club racer and an underwhelming season competing in Europe, a career as a cycling scribe beckoned… More than a dozen Grand Tours and countless Classics later, it’s where he still is today. He has been a contributor to VeloNews since 2006. In 2010, he won Cycling Australia’s media award for best story. Follow him on Twitter: @anthony_tan

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