An upset win isn’t out of the question in this year’s Women’s Tour Down Under, with in-form riders battling it out across all four stages. But reigning champ Amanda Spratt will once again start a raging favourite. SEE THE TEAMS AND MAPS.
SA’s Luke Roberts is in his fourth year of being a sports director leaving his adopted home of 17 years, Cologne, Germany where he has a wife and two young daughters for the rigours of the UCI WorldTour.
After botching both road races at the national championships in Buninyong on Sunday, Australian WorldTour team Mitchelton-Scott is now hellbent on defending both jerseys at the Tour Down Under starting on Thursday.
They bonded over a few beers, now Thomas De Gendt is looking forward to helping execute a plan to help his new Lotto-Soudal teammate Caleb Ewan add to his seven Tour Down Under stage wins.
CALEB Ewan has clinched stage two of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour to continue a blistering start to the season, holding off Team Sky’s Peter Kennaugh and Chris Froome.
CHRIS Harper is your typical young cycling enthusiast, burning the midnight oil in winter to watch his idols in the Tour de France. But now he’s racing with them.
WHEN Michael Hepburn walked back into the Adelaide SuperDrome last November after almost three years away it felt very much like home, reports Reece Homfray.
SAM Welsford enhanced his prospects for world championship and Olympic selection with a brilliant performance to win the individual pursuit national title.
CHRIS Froome hasn’t been paid a cent of appearance money to participate in the Jayco Herald Sun Tour, so the presence of the dual Le Tour champ was always going to be a win-win.
TEAM Sky has got back to business. Back to following race plans to the letter, back to executing to perfection and back to inflicting pain on its rivals.
TEAM Sky flexed its Jayco Herald Sun Tour muscle with Olympic gold medallist Peter Kennaugh edging out Tour de France champion Chris Froome to claim the first stage of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
FOR the second year in a row, Caleb Ewan just failed to claim the Jayco Herald Sun Tour prologue – but he didn’t walk away entirely empty-handed.
CHRIS Froome will get his Jayco Herald Sun wish – uphill contours – as the dual Tour de France champion seeks to erase a small time gap to Drapac’s race leader Will Clarke.
OLYMPIC gold medallist Anna Meares showed no signs of a lingering back injury as she teamed with Stephanie Morton to claim her 34th career national title.
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