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“A few people always believed in me. I always believed in me. And we did it!” Cadel Evans
“The real highlight of it all was the last three or four kilometers of the time trial,” Evans said. “The hardest part had been done until that point and coming into that finish I knew we were on the right track so that was just incredible. For once, the last four kilometers of a time trial wasn’t that hard.” Cadel Evans
“The Tour de France for me is so far ahead of everything else,” I’ll keep coming back for as long as my legs can keep coming back, and I’ll keep trying to win for as long as my legs can keep trying to win.” Mark Cavendish
“I’m making the statement—it’s the greatest individual achievement in Australian sporting history and I challenge anybody to put up something against it,” Sport cycling coach Dave Sanders
“I think Cadel’s pitch for a public holiday today is on the mark. We could call it “Yellow Day.” Evans’ mother, Helen Cocks
“All the time that I watched him, during those extraordinary long times in front, you knew that he had a chance, I’ve been speechless, breathless. But now there is an enormous relief; he has worked so hard for it, and for once he had some luck.” Evans’ mother, Helen Cocks
“Cadel Evans’ inspirational effort has won him the admiration of all Australians, He has worked tirelessly to win the most prestigious bike race in the world after twice finishing second. Cadel has had ups and downs but he displayed that never-give-up attitude which has put him at the top of the podium in Paris.” Federal Sports Minister Mark Arbib
“We did share a joke about his impact on the economy of our nation,”Gillard said. “I suggested that he wasn’t doing much good for national productivity because everyone was coming to work bleary-eyed. He suggested that it’d all be all right in the end because people would feel so full of morale that they’d be cantering into work and working harder.” Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
