Posts Tagged "Tour de France"
As Australia changed over its calendars and reflected on 2011, much of the sporting media were devoted to listing the great sporting moments of the year. Cadel Evans featured prominently, as you would expect.
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Australian cycling set for its breakout year
By Adrian Musolino, 11 Jan 2012
Australian cycling reached the summit with Cadel Evans’ win in the 2011 Tour de France – our country’s first in the grandest grand tour. But 2012 is the year in which the sport’s growth in this country could be cemented for generations to come.
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Cadel crowned Victoria’s best sportsperson
By AAP, 29 Nov 2011
Tour de France champion Cadel Evans was awarded the prestigious Governor’s award as Victorian sportsperson of the year for 2011 on Monday night.
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Cadel Evans to skip Tour Down Under
By The Roar, 5 Oct 2011The Tour Down Under will miss its biggest drawcard with reigning Tour de France champion Cadel Evans to bypass the event as he prepares to defend cycling’s most prestigious crown.
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Evans preparing 2012 cycling program
By Roger Vaughan, 23 Sep 2011
Cadel Evans remains interested in the London Olympics, but Adelaide’s Tour Down Under might not fit into his Tour de France title defence.
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Cadel Evans targets Olympics road race
By Roger Vaughan, 12 Aug 2011
Tour de France winner Cadel Evans looms as an unlikely weapon for Australia in the London Olympics road race.
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Stuart O’Grady joins GreenEDGE cycling team
By AAP, 9 Aug 2011
Veteran Australian cyclist Stuart O’Grady said it was the hardest decision of his career to leave Leopard-Trek and the Schleck brothers to join new Australian pro team GreenEDGE.
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2009 Le Tour: Return of Contador
By ceriseblood, 3 Aug 2011
The 2009 Tour de France marked the return of Alberto Contador, who had since gone on to stamp his authority on world cycling.
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2008 Le Tour: Schleck rising, Cadel waiting
By ceriseblood, 30 Jul 2011
Despite having won the 2007 Tour de France, Alberto Contador was never going to win the 2008 edition for one simple reason – he wouldn’t be racing.
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The tragedy of girls that don’t ‘get’ sport
By Mark Young, 30 Jul 2011Poor Mia Freedman is receiving a kicking in cyberspace this week for having the nerve to admit that Cadel Evans’ Tour De France victory left her cold.
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Tour de France champion Cadel Evans keen for Olympics
By Roger Vaughan, 28 Jul 2011
Tour de France champion Cadel Evans says he’s keen to put his hand up for the 2012 London Olympics – but he only expects to be selected if the course is hard enough.
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How 2007 brought a new hope in cycling
By ceriseblood, 28 Jul 2011
This story does not begin a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but rather in a smoky shed in suburban Newcastle one winter’s eve in 2007.
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Evans Tour win reinforces need for Aussie team
By The Crowd, 28 Jul 2011
Never before has the call for an Australian team at the Tour de France been more relevant. Cadel Evans’ Tour de France win will rightly go down as one of the finest ever sporting accomplishments by an Australian. It will also go down as one of the most improbable.
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2011 Tour de France: the review
By Athas Zafiris, 27 Jul 2011
This review of the 2011 Tour de France will be not a hagiography. Over the last few days the crème de la crème of Australia’s sportswriters have tried to come up with superlatives to do St. Cadel’s historic feat justice.
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Cadel Evans in hunt for ultimate treble
By Angela Habashy, 27 Jul 2011
Cadel Evans is well on course to become only the third cyclist to add an Olympic gold medal to a Tour de France win and world road title.
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We often overuse adjectives in the sports fraternity. When we’re caught up in the moment, words such as ‘champion’, ‘legend’, ‘hero’ and ‘icon’ roll off the tongue ever so eloquently.
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“I’m not going to be popular when I tell @karlstefanovic on @thetodayshow that I don’t care about Cadel Evans.” The above quote is from Mia Freedman’s Twitter yesterday morning.
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Evans can win Tour again, says coach
By Roger Vaughan, 26 Jul 2011
Renowned Australian cycling coach Dave Sanders believes Cadel Evans can become a multiple Tour de France champion if he wants to.
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Tour Down Under officials try for Evans
By Tim Dornin, 26 Jul 2011
Getting Cadel Evans back to contest the Tour Down Under could generate interest to rival that of Lance Armstrong’s appearances, says race director Mike Turtur.
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At 5.50pm Parisian time on a glorious Sunday afternoon Cadel Evans stood on the most majestic podium in world sport and made it official. On the most famous avenue in the world, with the Arc de Triomphe as a backdrop, Cadel Evans, in the famous maillot jaune, was crowned Tour De France Champion of 2011.
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