Royal Bikes cyclist Tynan Shannon

Tynan Shannon speaks following his 12th-placed finish in the 2024 Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Classic.

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00:00 Tynan, fastest Warnambool finisher in the Royal Blights team, how are you feeling?

00:04 Yeah, disappointed actually to be honest, but I guess it's always nice to be first home.

00:11 But yeah, a little bit disappointed with how things panned out.

00:14 Had good leaps, but unfortunately not quite lucky enough today to get to that lead bunch,

00:21 but happy enough.

00:23 What was it like? It just didn't go your way?

00:26 Yeah, no, well it did. Just a bit unlucky with how many teams were represented in that

00:33 first lead bunch. So I was stuck in that second bunch without any assistance. So trying to

00:39 get across, you just had so many people sitting on and couldn't really pull them back. But

00:44 yeah.

00:46 Do you know where you ended up finishing?

00:48 12th.

00:50 Is that your best finish in this race?

00:52 So far, so far. I wanted a top 10. The podium would have been better, and I did have the

00:58 leads, and I felt pretty good. Coming into Port Campbell I felt really good. So just

01:03 up front, doing as much as I can to sort of monitor the race. Got into the sort of winning

01:10 move, then a bunch broke off in front. I was stuck in that second group.

01:17 That was always next year? What's next for you on your...

01:20 Yeah, so there is always next year, and I'll have another crack for sure. But next up,

01:28 I think we've got Tura Mansfield in the graft, and Jorin Tinderell is coming up. So that's

01:36 another 230k ride as well. So yeah, a couple of events are coming up for the boys. So looking

01:43 forward to it.

01:44 And a good first hit out for the Royal Bikes team. Jack Aitken won the King of the Mountains,

01:48 I think, and got another jersey in there, I think?

01:50 Yeah, yeah. No, Jack, he played his game really well up in the break most of the day. Yeah,

01:58 and sort of cleaned up the points, which is good. He's good at that. So yeah, he's done

02:02 well there.

02:03 Sounds good. Thanks for that, Tyler.

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