Evans eyes 2010 Tour wildcard
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
WORLD road cycling champion Cadel Evans is confident a combination of his rainbow jersey and a new team will earn him a wildcard to next year's Tour de France.
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Evans confident of Tour de France wildcard
The Independent Weekly (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
World road cycling champion Cadel Evans is confident a combination of his rainbow jersey and several high-profile teammates will be enough to earn his new BMC Racing Team a wildcard to next year's Tour de France.
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Vote For Most Disappointing Rider Of The Year!
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Interesting assortment of nominations as you'll see below. No dopers. But injured riders still count. Poll Who was THE most disappointing rider of 2009? Nick Nuyens Linus Gerdemann Svein Tuft Simon Spilak Marzio Bruseghin Greg Van Avermaet Gert Steegmans Igor Anton Levi Leipheimer Bauke Mollema Alessandro Ballan Rigoberto Uran Enrico Gasparotto Other? 14 votes | Results
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Evans switch leaves Tour hopes in balance
ABC (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Cadel Evans abandoned Silence Lotto to join BMC Racing Team in a bid to strengthen his claim for a maiden Tour de France victory, but the wheels could fall off the twice runner-up's challenge before the race even starts.
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Transfers and Teams: Part 2, The Revenge
Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Teams, riders, results, oh my! Here is the second part of the monster Chris created last week, an overview of the teams after the transfer season is all-but closed. The list follows no particular order, because that would be far, far too organized. Okay, let’s go. Lampre-Vini Farnese v. 2009. It was a forgettable season for Lampre this year. World Champion Alessandro Ballan lost most of his season...
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Cadel Evans Jumps to BMC, Expects Full Support in Grand Tours
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Cadel Evans, like he did in Mendrisio at the world championships, acted swiftly and decisively over the final few weeks of the 2009 cycling season, and Australia's best stage racer has chosen to sign with the American BMC team for 2010. The newly crowned world champion bought himself out of the final year of his contract with the Silence-Lotto team, and inked a three year deal with BMC, joining such...
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Cadel Evans targets Tour de France triumph after leaving SilenceLotto for BMC Racing
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Cadel Evans says he wants to improve on his secondplaced Tour de France finishes after the world champion joined BMC Racing.
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BMC Thinking Big for 2010 with George Hincapie, Alessandro Ballan and Karsten Kroon
Euro Peloton - Pro Cycling News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The BMC cycling team is no longer a mid-level domestic squad. They have, over the past few months, morphed into a powerhouse team with an International roster capable of winning a variety of races in 2010. The biggest names to sign are undoubtedly the threesome of George Hincapie, Alessandro Ballan and Karsten Kroon. The three, each suited differently to one day races, should have a profound affect...
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Comeback cyclist Gerlach relapses
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Sacramento, California has seen both the dramatic return of Lance Armstrong and local racer Chad Gerlach to the pro peloton in 2009, but while Armstrong stood on the podium at the Nevada City Classic, Tour de France and Leadville 100, Gerlach's 'summer vacation' has turned tragic, as the 36-year-old has relapsed into living on the streets to panhandle for drinking money. Gerlach, racing for the Amore...
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Cadel Evans attacks to world road title
Tour de France 2007 (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Evans Races Home, originally uploaded by Dot Cycling. Maybe Australia's Cadel Evans was just waiting for the right moment. Evans, who has earned a reputation as a GC rider who is content to ride within himself and wait for others to fail, launched a brilliant attack from about 4 kilometers out, then fought off a counter by Alexander Kolobnev and Joaquin Rodriguez to take the biggest win of his road...
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Audacious Aussie delays Spain-Italy duel
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Spain and Italy have forged a healthy rivalry in the men's world championship road race, with four wins apiece this past decade. But both were left behind to watch on Sunday as Cadel Evans soloed away to claim the latest rainbow jersey on offer. Thanks to Paolo Bettini in 2006 and 2007, and Alessandro Ballan in 2008, Italy has been the team to beat of late. Damiano Cunego, second to Ballan last year,...
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Australia's Evans pips favourites to win
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
MENDRISIO, Switzerland (Reuters) - Twice Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans pipped the favourites to win the road race at the world cycling championships on Sunday, becoming the first Australian to claim the title.
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Can anyone break the Italian-Spanish stranglehold?
VeloNews (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
In what’s no surprise, the Italian and Spanish teams are leading the odds to win Sunday’s elite men’s world title. Just as they have for the past decade, Italy and Spain bring deep squads with two or three options to win the season’s most important one-day race on the calendar. Leading Sunday for Italy will be last year’s runner-up Damiano Cunego, with defending champion...
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Valverde facing tough road
IOL (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Alejandro Valverde will find out on Sunday whether his recent Tour of Spain triumph costs him the chance to finally be crowned world champion.
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Elite men's road race start list
cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Italy 1 Alessandro Ballan 2 Ivan Basso 3 Marzio Bruseghin 4 Damiano Cunego 5 Stefano Garzelli 6 Luca Paolini 7 Filippo Pozzato 8 Michele Scarponi 9 Giovanni Visconti Spain 10 Carlos Barredo Llamazales 11 Juan Jose Cobo Acebo 12 Oscar Freire Gomez 13 Juan Manuel Garate Cepa 14 Daniel Moreno ...