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Bookends For Sky, Second Title For Greipel – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 6

Team Sky capped the opening event of the 2010 UCI ProTour calendar in the same way they opened it, with a 1-2 finish. Chris Sutton would take the Stage 6 bunch sprint just ahead of teammate Greg Henderson, who opened the team’s account with a victory in the Cancer Council Helpline Classic. Rabobank’s [...]

Spanish Express, Luis Leon Sanchez Delivers – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 5

Heading into Stage 5 of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under, the opportunities to overtake current race leader, Andre Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia), were limited, if not completely non-existent.
But that fact did not stop Cadel Evans (BMC Racing), or the rest of the peloton, from testing the big German and his seemingly indomitable HTC-Columbia squad. If [...]

A Giant Down Under, Greipel Triples – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 4

The parcours for Thursday’s Stage 4 of the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under were as close to ideal for the sprinters as they come. And when the occasion arose, the fastmen did not disappoint.
Andre Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) remained the peloton’s unsolvable puzzle as he would take the bunch sprint ahead of Australians Robbie McEwen [...]

Surpresa, Cardoso Pulls Out Win – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 3

With an uphill finish in Stirling, the expectations for the sprinter/climbers in the peloton, such as Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) and current World Champion, Cadel Evans (BMC Racing), were great. And while both men represented themselves well, finishing second and third, respectively, on the day, it would be the relatively unknown Portuguese rider Manuel [...]

Second Verse, Same As The First – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 2

HTC-Columbia’s Greipel Doubles Up
The names have changed, but the outcome remained the same. For the second day in row, a break of three would make the race, but Andre Greipel and HTC-Columbia would once again swoop in for the victory.
David Kemp (UniSA Australia) and Omega Pharma-Lotto teammates, Mickael Delage and Olivier Kaisen would throw down [...]

Deja Vu, Greipel Takes Opener – 2010 Santos Tour Down Under Stage 1

It wasn’t Mark Cavendish at the end of the HTC-Columbia train, but you could scarcely tell the difference as the most winning team from 2009 delivered their intended package, German Andre Greipel, to the line in Tanunda in Jimmy John’s like fashion, which is to say, fast.
The victory for Greipel, overall winner of the 2008 [...]

Clear Sky, Henderson and Sutton Deliver One-Two in 2010 Season Opener

The journey from drawing board to podium was a short one for Dave Brailsford and Team Sky as Greg Henderson (formerly of Team HTC-Columbia) and Chris Sutton finished one-two in today’s 51km Cancer Council Helpline Classic in Adelaide.

Contested over a 1.7km closed circuit, the race not only provided a small preview of the 6th stage [...]

They Call Him Andre the Giant

I haven’t paid much attention to the Tour Down Under this week, and now it’s over. The lack of any Versus coverage until the Amgen Tour of California doesn’t help.With the first week of the new semester (I teach journalism at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.), I’ve been busy with that.Heck, I’ve paid [...]