Sun Tour: Reactions from Lygon Street

Lucky winner Simon Gerrans (AG2r Prévoyance)

Lucky winner Simon Gerrans (AG2r Prévoyance) (Image credit: Mark Gunter)

After the last stage of the 2005 Jayco Herald Sun Tour, which finished with a Criterium around Lygon Street, Melbourne, Ag2r's Simon Gerrans still couldn't believe his achievement. "To win here in my home-town race... well it doesn't get much better than this," he told Cyclingnews' John Trevorrow on the line. "The guys did a perfect job for me. They left me up the front of the bunch away from all the trouble."

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