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Australian Richie Porte has hit back at detractors of cycling’s dominant Sky team as he prepares for a rare one-day classic start.

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Richie Porte’s stage win and second overall at last week’s Criterium International, coupled with Simon Gerrans’ stage victory at the Volta a Catalunya, brought to a close what has been perhaps one of the most successful months of elite road racing in the history of Australian cycling.

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Cadel Evans has provided some of the greatest moments in Australian cycling history, and some of them will never be bettered, because Cadel broke the mould.

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Australian Richie Porte has finished second in the two-day Criterium International on the Mediterranean island of Corsica on Sunday, with his Team Sky teammate Chris Froome taking the honours.

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In a successful day for Australian cycling, Simon Gerrans and Richie Porte have taken out stage wins in Spain and France respectively.

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Richie Porte’s victory at the 2013 Paris-Nice last weekend is deserved reward for a rider who has shaped his career in his own manner, succeeding despite his constant omission from world championship teams due to Australian selectors.

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Cycling fans with pay TV have seen some brilliant racing in the past week with live coverage of both Paris-Nice and Tirreno Adriatico.

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Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain, Bradley Wiggins and now Richie Porte. One race, one winner, many implications.

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With Richie Porte taking out the race to the sun and Chris Froome wearing the blue leader’s jersey in Italy, what have we learnt from Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico?

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In the wee hours of Monday morning another exciting chapter in Australian cycling history was written. Tasmania’s Richie Porte became the first Aussie to win the Paris-Nice classic.

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Richie Porte has become the first Australian to win cycling’s celebrated Paris-Nice race.

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Australia’s Team Sky rider Richie Porte broke clear to win the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race at the mountain-top finish on La Montagne de Lure on Friday and seize the overall lead.

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Australian cycling’s purple patch continued as Richie Porte of Sky Procycling produced a sensational ride to claim the summit finish atop La Montagne de Lure on Stage 5 of Paris-Nice.

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Garmin-Sharp may have spluttered and misfired in the team time trial at Tirreno-Adriatico but over the border in France a different story was emerging, one that culminated in a cracking victory for their 24-year-old rider, Andrew Talansky.

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‘The Race to the Sun’ is about as commonly associated with the sun as the cuddly Kim Jong Un is associated with human rights – snow and heinous rain storms amidst nipple-blackening cold certainly bind more fairly to the early season race.

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With snow and adverse conditions causing havoc to the European calendar at the moment, a ‘Race to the Sun’ sounds just the tonic – and Richie Porte may well have his chance to shine for Sky in Paris-Nice.

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Porte should be first on Orica-GreenEdge wishlist

By Sean Lee, 21 Dec 2012

 

Indulge me for a moment. The 2014 Tour de France is coming to a thrilling climax…

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Sportsmanship is one of the values we hold most sacred in any code of sporting endeavour and at the Tour de France this code and its values have been put to the test.

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Australian pair Michael Rogers and Richie Porte were named in the Team Sky line-up for this year’s Tour de France on Thursday.

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Before Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory last year, Australia had, over the years, seen four riders develop into genuine General Classification (GC) threats at the Grand Tours.

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