QUICK-STEP rider Elia Viviani charged over the top of race leader Caleb Ewan with a blistering final burst to steal line honours on a scorching Stage 3 of the Tour Down Under. RECAP ALL THE ACTION HERE
ELIA Viviani has overtaken Caleb Ewan near the end of Thursday’s shortened 121km stage from Glenelg to Victor Harbor.
GET your Coffee Ride fix every day during the Tour Down Under as Reece Homfray and Val Migliaccio find the best of what’s brewing behind the scenes.
Extreme heat has forced organisers to take the unprecedented move of cancelling tomorrow’s Bupa Challenge Tour, which had attracted almost 5000 amateur riders from across Australia.
THE most prolific winner in Tour Down Under history Andre Greipel will miss the race for the first time in eight years in January.
JAY McCarthy fought bitter cold and snow to finish this year’s Giro d’Italia but says Tinkoff-Saxo’s recent trip to Mount Kilimanjaro pushed the team to its physical and mental limits.
RETIRED AFL star Ryan O’Keefe says the best way to discover a new city is by bike so when he moved from Sydney to Adelaide in the off-season it was one of the first things he packed.
SIMON Gerrans has sounded an early warning to his rivals ahead of the Australian summer by declaring his national championship and Tour Down Under defence is on track.
AUSTRALIA’S best female road cyclist Tiffany Cromwell did not win an individual bike race this year but her ultra-consistent performances on the big stage represented a coming of age.
CADEL Evans is ruing the loss of the famous ‘Corkscrew’ from next year’s Tour Down Under route as he plots a way to avenge his one-second loss to Simon Gerrans.
MARK Cavendish has apologised for causing the crash that brought Simon Gerrans down in the Tour de France’s opening stage, but Aussie still disappointed.
THE Tour Down Under will be held in South Australia for at least the next two years after the world cycling body confirmed the event licence for SA.
GLENELG is back on the Tour Down Under map for the first time in seven years and the State Government is using it as a carrot to lure more European visitors to SA next January.
ACTION PHOTOS: NEW Zealander Jack Bauer has won the Jayco Herald Sun Tour prologue through Melbourne’s CBD with a blistering display over the 2.5km course.
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