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BERGERAC, FRANCE - JULY 25: Ramunas Navardauskas of Lithuania and Garmin-Sharp celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the nineteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 208km stage between Maubourguet Pays du Val d'Adour and Bergerac, on July 25, 2014 in Bergerac, France. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Lithuanian wins first Tour stage

RAMUNAS Navardauskas has made history by becoming the first Lithuanian cyclist to win a stage of the Tour de France.

Australia's Jack Bobridge poses on the poidum after winning the gold medal in the men's 4000m individual pursuit race in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on July 25, 2014. AFP PHOTO/ADRIAN DENNIS

Bobridge back on track after road rage

IMPENDING fatherhood and two gold medals in his track comeback in Glasgow has put Jack Bobridge in a happy place after a tough two years on the road.

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Australia's track cyclist Anna Meares waves to the crowd as she celebrates after winning the women's 500 meter time trial in the Chris Hoy velodrome at the Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday July 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Pendleton in awe of Anna

ANNA Meares’ long-time rival Victoria Pendleton has paid her the ultimate compliment by saying she would love to take her place in world cycling.

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GLASGOW COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014- DAY 1- Gold medal winning Men's 4000m Team Pursuit Team, Jack Bobridge, Luke Davison, Alex Edmondson and Glenn O'Shea during day 1 of the track cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Pics Adam Head

‘Wiggins factor’ a golden bonus

AUSTRALIAN cycling coach Tim Decker said the biggest prize from the team pursuit gold was racing Bradley Wiggins on British soil.

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HAUTACAM, FRANCE - JULY 24: Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and Astana Pro Cycling celebrates winning the eighteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 146km stage between Pau and Hautacam, on July 24, 2014 in Hautacam, France. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Tour ‘boss’: Don’t call me Lance

AS his team hoped, Vincenzo Nibali demonstrated he’s the “boss” of the Tour de France. Just don’t compare him to the last rider called that: doping villain Lance Armstrong.

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GLASGOW COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014- DAY 1- Anna Meares wins the Women's 500m Time Trial on day 1 of the track cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Pics Adam Head

Meares the hero’s hero

ANNA Meares shows her strength to the world in all sorts of ways — sometimes just cooking a plain old barbecue sausage.

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Nibali wins fourth Tour stage

VINCENZO Nibali has confirmed his supremacy at the Tour de France with his fourth stage victory in the 18th stage from Pau to Hautacam.

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GLASGOW COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014- Siblings Alex and Annette Edmondson will both be competing for Australia in cycling at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. Pics Adam Head

SA cycling siblings ride into history books

ALEX and Annette Edmondson used to race each other for the front seat of the car and now they will line up in the same event at the Commonwealth Games.

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VIDEO: Aussie in Tour scuffle

AUSTRALIAN cyclist Luke Durbridge has apologised for shoving a helper from a rival team during stage 17 of the Tour de France.

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LEEDS, ENGLAND - JULY 05: (l to r) Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry pose at the official start of stage one of the 2014 Tour de France, a 190km stage between Leeds and Harrogate, on July 5, 2014 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Curse of Prince William routs le Tour

HAS Prince William’s handshake cursed the Tour de France? That’s the latest superstition to hit the peleton as riders to have tangled with the royal bite the dust.

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Majka wins Tour 17th stage

RAFAL Majka has climbed to his second mountain stage victory of the Tour de France, as Simon Gerrans calls it quits.

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Simon Gerrans from Australia reacts after winning the overall race after stage 6 of the 2014 Tour Down Under cycling race on January 26, 2014. Stage Tasmanian Richie Porte won the fifth stage of the Tour Down Under following a brilliant solo attack up the second ascent of Willunga Hill in South Australia. AFP PHOTO / Mark Gunter -- IMAGE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - STRICTLY NO COMMERCIAL USE

Gerrans out of Tour de France

AUSTRALIAN champion Simon Gerrans did not start the 17th stage of the Tour de France and has pulled out with an injury.

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London Olympics 2012. Day 2. England cycling coach Shane Sutton speaks to Australian media regarding yesterdays Men's road race.

Aussie plots our cyclists’ downfall

THE Australian cycling coach behind enemy lines with the Great Britain nations in Glasgow is tipping a brutal start to the “the Ashes on wheels”.

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2011 file photo, Lance Armstrong pauses during an interview in Austin, Texas. Lance Armstrong met in May with the panel investigating cycling’s doping past in a meeting set up by the cyclist who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life over his use of performance-enhancing drugs. Armstrong attorney Elliot Peters declined to reveal specifics of what was discussed in the seven-hour meeting on May 22 at a hotel outside Dulles Airport in Washington. Peters told The Associated Press on Thursday, July 17, 2014 that “Lance answered all their questions.” (AP Photo/Thao Nguyen, File)

Lance Armstrong’s trolling frenzy

LANCE Armstrong has broken the first rule of Twitter. He has fed the trolls. The disgraced cyclist’s lost duffel bag has sparked a merciless frenzy of obnoxiousness.

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Michael Rogers of Australia and the Tinkoff-Saxo team celebrates winning stage 16 of the 2014 Tour de France, a 238km stage between Carcassonne and Bagneres-de-Luchon, on July 22, 2014 in Bagneres-de-Luchon, France. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Rogers wins his first Tour stage

RIDING in his 10th Tour de France, champion Australian rider Michael Rogers finally got his first stage victory in cycling’s greatest race.

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Overall leader's yellow jersey and British Bradley Wiggins, celebrates on the podium at the end of the 120 km and last stage of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race starting in Rambouillet and finishing in the famous Paris-Champs-Elysees Avenue, on July 22, 2012. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE

Cyclist Wiggins labels Aussies favourites

BRITISH superstar Bradley Wiggins has stoked the fire with arch rival Australia by dubbing it the hunted and England the hunters.

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GLASGOW COMMONWEALTH GAMES 2014- Cyclist Anna Meares announced as flag bearer during the Australian Commonwealth Games team announcement of the flag bearer at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Pics Adam Head

Flag honour to hoist Meares higher

ANNA Meares has vowed to use the pride of carrying the Australian flag at the Commonwealth Games to spur her to even greater heights.

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NIMES, FRANCE - JULY 20: Jack Bauer of New Zealand and Garmin-Sharp reacts after the finish as he was the last rider of the breakaway caught by the field sprint in the final meters of the fifteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 222km stage between Tallard and Nimes, on July 20, 2014 in Nimes, France. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

’My meltdown was pretty embarrassing’

JACK Bauer has spoken of his “bitter disappointment” after narrowly missing out on a “childhood dream” Tour de France stage win.

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NIMES, FRANCE - JULY 20: Alexander Kristoff of Noraway and Team Katusha celebrates on the podium after winning the fifteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 222km stage between Tallard and Nimes, on July 20, 2014 in Nimes, France. (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

Kristoff breaks Kiwi’s heart with big finish

NORWAY’S Alexander Kristoff captured his second stage win of this year’s Tour de France as Italian Vincenzo Nibali maintained his overall advantage.

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SAINT-ETIENNE, FRANCE - JULY 18: Richie Porte of Australia and Team SKY in action during the thirteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France, a 197km stage between Saint-Etienne and Chamrousse, on July 18, 2014 in Chamrousse, France. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Why their bikes cost more than your car

WANT a bike just like the ones Richie Porte and Co. are riding in the Tour de France? Prepare to spend more than you splashed on your car.

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Flyer who cheated death twice

THIS is the unbelievable lucky escape of one man who was booked to fly on doomed Malaysia Airlines flights MH370 and MH17.

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Stage winner Poland's Rafal Majka celebrates on the podium after winning the 177 km fourteenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 19, 2014 between Grenoble and Risoul, eastern France. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG

Rafal Majka wins Tour’s 14th stage

YOUNG Polish rider Rafal Majka made up for the disappointment of finishing second on Friday by winning Saturday’s 14th stage of the Tour de France.

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BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - MAY 10: Best Young Rider jersey wearer Luke Durbridge of Australia and Orica-Greenedge looks on ahead of the second stage of the 2014 Giro d'Italia, a 219km flat road stage on May 10, 2014 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo by Bryn Lennon - Velo/Getty Images)

Durbridge eyeing more than time trial

AUSTRALIAN Luke Durbridge may be a time trial specialist but he believes he can have Tour de France success away from the race against the clock.

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Australia's Richie Porte rides near the finish line during the 197.5 km thirteenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 18, 2014 between Saint-Etienne and Chamrousse, central eastern France. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE

Porte blows Tour de France hopes

AUSSIE rider Richie Porte has slipped from second to 16th overall in the Tour de France after cracking on the final climb of the latest stage.

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Britain's Mark Cavendish injured receives medical assistance after a fall near the finish line at the end of the 190.5 km first stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race on July 5, 2014 between Leeds and Harrogate, northern England. The 2014 Tour de France gets underway on July 5 in the streets of Leeds and ends on July 27 down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. AFP PHOTO / JEFF PACHOUD

The Tour de France casualty ward

PICTURES: THE Tour de France is only halfway through and already the brutal race has claimed its fair share of scalps.

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Retired cyclist Lance Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France winner on comeback trail, relaxes at a villa he has rented in Adelaide ahead of competing in the Tour Down Under race next week.

Armstrong finally meets doping panel

LANCE Armstrong has finally been grilled by cycling investigators about doping in the sport’s past.

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SAINT-ETIENNE, FRANCE - JULY 17: Alexander Kristoff of Norway and Team Katusha celebrates winning stage twelve of the 2014 Tour de France, a 186km stage between Bourg-en-Bresse and Saint-Etienne, on July 17, 2014 in Saint-Etienne, France. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Kristoff wins stage as leaders bide time

ALEXANDER Kristoff of Norway, in a solo show of opportunistic racing, won the 12th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint.

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LA PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, FRANCE - JULY 14: Richie Porte of Australia and Team SKY crosses the finish line on stage ten of the 2014 Tour de France, a 162km stage between Mulhouse and La Planche des Belles Filles, on July 14, 2014 in La Planche des Belles, France. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)

Cadel: Porte can afford no hiccups

CADEL Evans says Richie Porte is right in Tour de France contention if he can avoid that “one bad day” in the mountains.

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18/1/14 - Tour Down Under official press conference at The Hilton - rider Cadel Evans. Pic Naomi Jellicoe

Cadel and his Great Ocean Road race

CADEL Evans on Thursday dared to dream that a Victorian race carrying his name could one day rival the great European classics.

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Lance Armstrong, who features in TV show Catalyst

Tour winners want Armstrong reinstated

ALMOST half of the 25 living winners of the Tour de France believe disgraced drug cheat Lance Armstrong should have his seven Tour titles reinstated.

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