Bendigo-raised cyclist Blake Agnoletto speaks after winning the 2025 Powercor Melbourne to Warrnambool Cycling Classic.
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00:00Blake, you've already told us, but how does it feel to win such an iconic race?
00:04Oh mate, it's absolutely incredible.
00:08You see all the people in the winners list who's actually come first in the longest race
00:13in Australia, and it's just an amazing feeling to add my name to the list.
00:19The team that we had was completely one for all and all for one, so that was a massive
00:24part.
00:26And just the complete buy-in we've had as a whole team, so just to pull it off for all
00:31the hard work everyone's done today is absolutely incredible.
00:33Did you get a play out how you thought?
00:35It was pretty close there at the end.
00:37I wasn't too sure how I was going to play out.
00:38I knew I'd split up a lot on the coast, but it was a lot smaller group than I thought
00:46it would have been coming into the finish.
00:48But yeah, it was just a bit of cat and mouse there towards the last 15k, and Tristan and
00:54I marked it.
00:56And then that last 2k, Tristan stayed in the front and then set me up perfectly.
01:01Have you raced it a few times before?
01:03I've done one sprint here for, I think it was like 33rd or something, so I didn't really
01:11remember it that well, but I could sort of see it was just coming really fast and really
01:16fast and no one was launching, so I just said, oh well, time to go.
01:21If I hold on, I hold on.
01:22If I cramp, I cramp.
01:23But I'm glad I actually got it done today.
01:25And your coach Tim Decker's a legend here.
01:27How does it feel to win it for him?
01:28Oh, absolutely.
01:29It's just like the emotion and time he put into sending all the win details and the course
01:35previews, photos of the finish line from two or three weeks out, and just to get it done
01:41for both Moff and for Tim Decker, absolutely incredible.
01:45Well, ladies and gentlemen, that was the water bowl.