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Debates over team selection at Sky and BMC have ensured anticipation about this year’s Tour de France has rarely dropped below fever pitch.

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During the Australian road cycling championships held in Ballarat and Buninyong last January, I snapped a hurried photograph of Rohan Dennis as he whooshed by just after the start of the individual time trial.

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Sky has today announced that 2012 Tour winner, Sir Bradley Wiggins, has been withdrawn from the 2013 edition. Wiggins struggled throughout this year’s Giro d’Italia with both injury and illness, resulting in him withdrawing from the race.

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This year’s Tour de France promises to be one of the most open contests in years, with at least ten men capable of stepping on the podium in Paris.

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Just six weeks ago, Cadel Evans announced he would race the Giro so that he could honour his role as team leader at the Tour. In truth, it was much more than that.

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Until the start of the Giro d’Italia three weeks ago in Napoli, there were significant speculation about who should be the team leader for BMC at the 2013 Tour de France.

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With the year’s first Grand Tour finally drawing to its conclusion, it’s time to pick the winners and losers. Some riders had a dream Giro, and others had a race that was best categorised as ‘an experience’.

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Cadel Evans finished third as Italian Vincenzo Nibali secured his maiden Giro d’Italia title on Sunday.

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Everybody loves a procession and a procession in the sun is the best kind. The boys took their time, leisurely rolling into Brescia on what was a nice Sunday ride after three weeks of blizzards, rain, altered routes and cancelled stages.

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The closing kiometres of Stage 20 of the Giro d’Italia looked more like a scene from the Winter Olympics than a bike race held just a week out from the official beginning of the European summer.

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BMC team president Jim Ochowicz has confirmed Cadel Evans will be the team leader for the 2013 Tour de France.

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In a 16th stage punctuated by a constant stream of late attacks, it was Benat Intxausti who eventually stood victorious yesterday, winning a sprint finish in Ivrea. Join us from 11.00pm AEST when we pick up the action live from the 2013 Giro d’Italia.

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Astana’s Vincenzo Nibali kept possession of the Giro d’Italia race leader’s pink jersey ahead of Cadel Evans for another night after a strong showing in Tuesday’s 16th stage.

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For all the compelling talking points the weather-honed Giro d’Italia has given us over the past two weeks, events at the Tour of California provided some equally significant topics to reflect on.

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As we enter the final week of racing in the 2013 Giro d’Italia the battle for overall glory is still far from decided.

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With Bradley Wiggins and Ryder Hesjedal abandoning, Mark Cavendish reaching a new milestone and Cadel Evans emerging as Vincenzo Nibali’s most likely obstacle for the maglia rosa, the last six days of weather-affected racing in Italy have certainly thrown up a few cracking talking points.

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Cadel Evans’ confidence has been restored as he heads into the last week of the Giro d’Italia still well in touch with race leader Vincenzo Nibali.

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Sir Bradley Wiggins’ withdrawal from the 2013 Giro d’Italia – according to Team Sky’s website “on the medical advice of the team doctor due to illness” – raises questions over how Wiggo will be remembered when he hangs up his helmet.

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Life is full of contradictions and the sunshine of Stage 13 of the 2013 Giro d’Italia was a welcome relief for the riders after the deluge of Stage 12.

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Following Stage 12′s aquatic adventure, it’s a long (254km) but relatively flat pedal from Busseto to Cherasco on Friday, the 13th stage of the 2013 Giro d’Italia. We’ll have live updates from 10.30om AEST.

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