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ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): While the cycling team they have sponsored since 2005 in its famous and distinctive red and black jerseys is hard at work gaining television footage around the world from their efforts in the Santos Tour Down Under, the Head Of...
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WILLUNGA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Australian cycling star Cadel Evans honoured the world champion's famed rainbow jersey and won widespread praise after the greatest day in Tour Down Under history.Lance Armstrong and world cycling boss Pat McQuaid were among th...
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MANCHESTER (ENGLAND): Mark Cavendish's 2010 season won't start until the Tour of Andalucia run on February 21, as he deals with an ongoing dental problem which has restricted his base training necessary for the long season ahead of him.
This season Caven...
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WILLUNGA HILL (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): By the time the riders arrived for their first sojourn up Wilunga Hill, the street party was in full swing, people had started arriving to set up from early this morning, getting their spot, many of whom get the same spot ...
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BEIJING (CHINA): Australia took three silver medals on the opening night of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup with Team Jayco gaining a silver medal as well, while the Kiwis won a gold and a bronze medal (see separate story).Michael Hepburn took silver in t...
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BEIJING (CHINA): Kiwi World champion Alison Shanks comfortably took out the gold medal in the individual pursuit on the opening night of finals at the UCI World Cup in Beijing. Shanks dominated the final over Lithuania’s Vilija Sereikaite, clocking 3:3...
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ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Australia and by definition Oceania will only be allocated one ProTour licence in the foreseeable future and that is currently held by the Santos Tour Down Under under the auspices of the South Australian Special Events.
In ef...
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ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Robbie McEwen and Stuart O'Grady, the two cyclists who define Australian cycling's greatest era, have received stark reminders that their professional careers are not forever.
  Naturally, much of the focus at this week's T...
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GOOLWA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Lance Armstrong is showing ominous early-season form as he starts his campaign for an eighth Tour de France title, if his efforts over the past two days in the Santos Tour Down Under are anything to go by.
  The Texan and Rad...
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GOOLWA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Lance Armstrong attempted an audacious break in the closing stages of today's Santos Tour Down Under over the 149.5km from Norwood to Goolwa, breaking away with RadioShack teammate Tomas Vaitkus with only 10km remaining.
The pai...
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GOOLWA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): When an opportunity to strut your stuff in front of your peers comes, its generally accepted you seize that opportunity with both hands and that is what David Kemp of UNISA-Australia is certainly doing in the Santos Tour Down Und...
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STIRLING (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Portugal's reigning road champion Manuel Cardoso (Footon-Servetto-Fuji) upstaged a 2009 grand tour champion and the current World Champion to win stage three of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.
Cardoso crossed the line in a ti...
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Some photos of what was happening before the start of stage 3....
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STIRLING (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Australian world cycling champion Cadel Evans has already performed far better than expected at the Tour Down Under, finishing third in a brutally-hard stage three.
Evans made the most of his opportunites in the 132.5kM stage ...
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STIRLING (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Lance Armstrong felt "dead" by the time Portuguese champion Manuel Cardoso executed a smart final kick to win stage three in the Tour Down Under.
The two laps of the hilly finishing circuit at Stirling was everything the recor...
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ADELAIDE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Almost 300,000 people have watched the first three days racing in the weeklong Santos Tour Down Under cycling carnival which started on Sunday with the Cancer Council Helpline Classic.It attracted 108,000 spectators to East End...
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HAHNDORF (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): It must have almost been a sense of dejavu for Andre Greipel after the Columbia-HTC rider won the stage into Hahndorf today, two years after he won the same stage.Lance Armstrong once famously declared "no gifts" and now Andre ...
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TANUNDA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): While World Champion Team BMC's Cadel Evans was caught up briefly in the crash, Lance Armstrong (Team RadioShack) stayed trouble free on the opening stage of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.Evans was caught up in the crash less ...
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TANUNDA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): In the 2009 Tour Down Under Andrei Greipel crashed out of an event he was expected to win and despite crashing Allan Davis, thanks to his then Team Quick Step team recovered from a crash to eventually win the tour.What a differe...
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TANUNDA (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): Lance Armstrong was quick to praise his new signing Tim Roe after the young Adelaide native shone in his first Tour Down Under, with the 20-year-old featuring in a three-man break on the opening stage of the Santos Tour Down Und...
