Cadel Evans rides off into the sunset: 'I am just original'

By Rupert Guinness
Updated March 9 2015 - 10:08am, first published February 1 2015 - 12:40pm
"My path with how I became a Tour rider, my upbringing, everything … it was so different." Photo: Josh Robenstone
"My path with how I became a Tour rider, my upbringing, everything … it was so different." Photo: Josh Robenstone
Pinnacle: Cadel Evans on winning the Tour de France.
Pinnacle: Cadel Evans on winning the Tour de France.

Cadel Evans is on his own driving north from his home in Stabio in Switzerland to Bern 300 kilometres away. It is January, 2012, and he is in a world of happy thoughts.