Australian rider wins time trial to start Vuelta
ROHAN Dennis won the time trial on Stage One of the Spanish Vuelta, while Michal Kwiatkowski of Sky grabbed an early advantage over other team leaders.
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Sagan coming back to TDU
THREE-time reigning cycling world champion Peter Sagan is coming back to Adelaide in January to open his 2019 season at the Tour Down Under for the third year in a row.
Porte to lead Aussie charge
WITHIN days of watching his Tour de France dream evaporate with a cruel mid-race crash, Richie Porte sent a message to Australian cycling selectors telling them he wanted in on this year’s world championships.
Aussie sprint star quits Mitchelton-Scott
AUSTRALIA’S sprinting boy wonder Caleb Ewan has confirmed he will leave Mitchelton-Scott for Lotto Soudal after he was left devastated by the Aussie outfit’s 2018 Tour de France snub.
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Dennis sacrifices yellow for BMC’s ambitions
ROHAN Dennis’ stint in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France is over after he sacrificed his own chances to enhance team leader Tejay van Garderen’s overall prospects on a treacherous second stage.
Froome makes time on Tour rivals
IN HIGH winds and heavy rain, Chris Froome and Alberto Contador strike early advantage on the brutal second stage of this year’s Tour de France.
Dennis an overnight success years in the making
TO understand what wearing the Tour de France’s yellow jersey means to Adelaide’s Rohan Dennis is to know the pain he endured in scaling cycling’s heights.
Tour icons from a land Down Under
MEET some of Australia’s finest who will be battling across 3,358km of brutal cycling this month on the roads and mountains of France and central Europe.
Aussie huge on world’s biggest stage
AUSTRALIA’S Rohan Dennis did something nobody has ever done on the first stage of the Tour de France.
Ironman Hansen to equal Grand Tour record
WHEN Queenslander Adam Hansen started the Tour de France Saturday night he turned the first pedal strokes towards the record for the most consecutive Grand Tours in cycling history.
OGE’s grand plan to shake up Tour
OVERSHADOWED by a four-way battle for Tour de France supremacy between cycling giants ORICA-GreenEDGE is plotting a scheme to upstage the heavyweights.
Every thing has gone to plan: Matthews
IT will be pretty special just to get to the start line of the Tour de France for the first time tonight, writes Michael Matthews.
No sex, please
LANCE Armstrong went to great lengths to hide his drug taking, but now it’s his romantic life that’s giving the disgraced doping cheat headaches.
Aussies to watch in Tour de France
NONE are likely to challenge for overall honours at the Tour de France but nine Australians have plenty to ride for when the great race begins this weekend.
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