Tour de France win tops wish list
A WIN on home soil in this week’s Tour Down Under is highly prized, but a Tour de France stage win is top of Orica-GreenEDGE’s 2013 to-do list.
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Gilbert primed for podium finish
BMC Racing director Fabio Baldato claims UCI road world champion Philippe Gilbert is primed for a podium finish at the Tour Down Under.
Cadel’s team to spare no expense
BMC Racing will stop at nothing to help Cadel Evans win a second Tour de France by overhauling the team’s training and nutrition programs.
Sutton looking for a classic start
A FIT and firing Chris Sutton hopes Team Sky’s Classics group can this week emulate the success of its Tour de France squad from last year.
Ego Lance’s downfall, says Martina
TENNIS legend Martina Navratilova says only a “big ego” could have driven Lance Armstrong to lie about doping for so many years.
Money on Lance was well spent
LANCE Armstrong has no obligation to repay the millions he received from the SA Government, cycling commentator Phil Liggett says.
TDU target sitting on Greipel’s back
ANDRE Greipel’s devastating win in last night’s Tour Down Under curtain-raiser has stamped him the man to beat in Stage 1 tomorrow.
Lance is still a liar: Hamilton
LONG time Lance Armstrong antagonist Tyler Hamilton says his former teammate is still not telling the whole truth about his involvement in doping.
Greipel’s weight lightens Gerrans’ way
SPRINTER Andre Greipel has rated himself no chance of becoming the first man to win three Santos Tour Down Under titles.
Goss taking stealth approach
AUSTRALIA’S best sprinter Matt Goss cancelled his usual summer holiday so he could focus on starting this season in red-hot form.
Nothing less than top 10 for Belgian
WORLD champion Philippe Gilbert will accept nothing less than a top-10 finish in this week’s Santos Tour Down Under.
Adelaide gun’s shock withdrawal
GARMIN-SHARP director Geert Vanbondt said Adelaide gun Rohan Dennis was going well enough to win this week’s Tour Down Under.
Lance factor forgotten at Classic
IT was no Lance Armstrong, no worries last year, following his 2009, 2010 and 2011 appearances in the Tour Down Under.
Greipel surges to TDU prologue win
ANDRE Greipel was proclaimed the undisputed king of Adelaide’s East End by claiming his third prologue crown last night.
We’re here, let the TDU begin
NOW that the whole Lance Armstrong saga is over we can all focus on the reason we’re in Adelaide this week.
Illness ends Dennis’ Tour dream
SOUTH Australian gun rider Rohan Dennis has today been ruled out of the Tour Down Under after contracting viral meningitis.
100,000 expected for TDU prologue
MORE than 100,000 fans are tipped to flock to tonight’s People’s Choice Classic – prologue for the Tour Down Under – in Adelaide.
Cycling to prove itself at TDU
LANCE Armstrong’s doping confessions have ensured the eyes of the world remain focused on the Santos Tour Down Under.
Veteran big guy loves to shut up
JENS Voigt is not like most cyclists. For starters he’s 76kg and 189cm tall. And he’s 41.
Racing to calm riders’ nerves
RACING looks set to calm the peloton’s nerves at the TDU, proving that solidarity is possibly the only way to reclaiming the sport’s credibility.
Don’t defend me any more
WATCH HERE: LANCE Armstrong comes close to tears describing how he confessed his drug cheating to his children.
Emotional Lance’s family torment
LANCE Armstrong has broken down describing the torment his doping sins inflicted on his family and likened his life ban to the death penalty.
Armstrong issues giant correction
IT MAY have taken him 13 years, but today British journalist and author David Walsh got the confession he thought would never come.
Big questions still need answers
ANALYSIS: LANCE Armstrong’s abject humiliation is now complete. Or so he would have the world believe.
Lance in legal minefield
LANCE Armstrong took a major legal risk in confessing to drug use in a television interview and has exposed himself to significant litigation.
Lance confession ‘perfect PR’
LANCE Armstrong’s admission of doping is a “calculated public relations exercise”, Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme says.
Victim can’t forgive Armstrong
AN ITALIAN cyclist who’s career was ruined after he linked Lance Armstrong to drugs eight years ago says his confession doesn’t go far enough.
Armstrong: A bully, a cheat, a doper
THEY were five one-word answers that finally acknowledged a multitude of sins.
Little to love about Lance
YOU have to give the disgraced cyclist credit for getting one thing right – “I’m a deeply flawed character”, he told Oprah Winfrey.
A great big liar
WITH five succinct answers of “yes”, history was set right. Each confirmation of the damning proposition landing heavily.
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