Lance Armstrong will have some competition as the most popular kid in the peloton for Australia's Tour Down Under next January now that favorite son Cadel Evans, right, has committed to the bike race.
Evans had earlier been quoted that he was going to skip his nation's bike race because it didn't fit into his training schedule for the 2010 Tour de France, which he is hungry to win.
But having relocated to BMC Racing after dropping his five-year tenure with Silence-Lotto last week, Evans and BMC are said to be accepting a wild card to race in the Tour Down Under from January 17-24, 2010.
There's no doubt that Armstrong's return to Adelaide with his newly minted Team RadioShack …
Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack will head to Australia in January to make the Tour Down Under the first race for the new team.
The Tour Down Under rolls out Jan. 17-24, 2010, and is once again based in Adelaide. Armstrong's return to professional cycling at the bike race earlier this year boosted the attendance over previous years by about 50%.
Even a year after his announced return to cycling, Armstrong is still a big draw. His bike ride around Dublin after the close of his cancer summit there drew more than 1,000 bicyclists. Although he had hinted at a ride in Dublin's Phoenix Park earlier in the week, he gave the final details only hours before he set off. ….
The 2010 Tour Down Under will roll out from Jan. 17 to 24, organizers have announced.
It will be the first race on the UCI calendar.
The week-long stage race around South Australia got a boost in 2009 as Lance Armstrong decided to emerge from 3 1/2 years of retirement for the race. No …
Lance Armstrong and the Amgen Tour of California are reported to be drawing huge crowds along the route, in spite of heavy rain and cold temperatures.
More than 100 people crowded around the Astana trailer in San Jose to see Armstrong preparing for Stage 3 on Tuesday. Thousands gathered along the route.
Ann Killion, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, asked former coach Jim Ochowicz what makes Armstrong ride? …
As the laps clicked by in the final stage of the Tour Down Under on Sunday, Lance Armstrong demonstrated that he had plenty of gas in the tank by attacking the peloton and briefly riding at the head of a breakaway.
He then dropped back and let the sprinters take over the battle for the stage win, which was taken at the line by Italy's Francesco Chicchi of Liquigas as Graeme Brown's foot came out of the pedal.
Australia's Allan Davis, above, finished safely back in the peloton, comfortable that his 25-second lead earned in three stage victories was good enough to win the Tour Down Under …
After losing touch with the race leaders on the final climb, Allan Davis fought back to the front of the peloton on Stage 5 and scored a hat trick at the Tour Down Under on Saturday in Australia.
The Aussie's time bonuses from three wins virtually assures him the championship when the 6-stage bicycle race ends Sunday.
Lance Armstrong battled to make a bid for the lead on Stage 5's second climb up daunting Willunga Hill and stayed near the front of the race. But if you want to know how things have changed since Armstrong last raced in the peloton, picture this scene:
As Armstrong leads a group of 10 riders struggling to catch the five cyclists up the hill, friend and former teammate George Hincapie and two others zoom out of the group and catch the leaders, leaving Armstrong and the others behind …
Australia's Allan Davis remained in control of the Tour Down Under after Stage 4 on Friday. The cyclist for Quick Step beat Thursday's winner Graeme Brown in the final sprint and held onto the race leader's ochre jersey for a third day.
Whether his dominance will survive two trips up Willunga Hill — the tour's toughest climb — on Saturday remains to be seen.
Some are saying that if Lance Armstrong, who sits 39 seconds out of 1st in 38th place, has any chance at all, it will be on the two climbs up Willunga on Stage 5. But other cyclists, like Aussie Stuart O'Grady in 4th place, are in a better position to make winning time on the stage …
Lance Armstrong seems to test himself with a new challenge everyday at the Tour Down Under. On Thursday's Stage 3, it was joining a fast 14-man breakaway for 50 miles that blew apart the overall race standings.
That breakaway didn't survive to the finish at Victor Harbor, however, where the Rabobank team delivered sprinter Graeme Brown across the line ahead of Wednesday's winner, Allan Davis.
Once again, Team Columbia's George Hincapie finished in 5th place for the second day in a row. Defending Tour champion Andre Greipel of Columbia, who won Stage 1, dropped out of the race after breaking his collarbone in a crash …
Lance Armstrong may just have been testing his legs, but no one in the Tour Down Under peloton was going to see how far up the road he could get.
The 7-time Tour de France winner attacked with Australian Under-23 champion Jack Bobridge about 25 miles from the finish of Stage 2 in Stirling. They got away for about a minute before they were reeled back in.
What remained in the 90-mile stage was a series of attacks and attempts to control the sprint before QuickStep catapulted sprinter Allan Davis, above, across the finish line on Wednesday in Australia …
Picking up where he left off last year, defending Tour Down Under champion Andre Greipel won Stage 1 of this year's edition in a hard-fought sprint.
Greipel's Columbia teammates drove the pace at the end of the 89-mile stage. Unlike Sunday's results in the Classic, however, Greipel held off his challengers at the finish line.
Comeback cyclist Lance Armstrong finished in the pack, in 120th place, but only 11 seconds down. Earlier he had said his main goal was to not get dropped on the day's two King of the Mountains climbs. He survived unscathed …
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Lance Armstrong will have some competition as the most popular kid in the peloton for Australia's Tour Down Under next January now that favorite son Cadel Evans, right, has committed to the bike race.
Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack will head to Australia in January to make the Tour Down Under the first race for the new team.
Lance Armstrong and the Amgen Tour of California are reported to be drawing huge crowds along the route, in spite of heavy rain and cold temperatures.
As the laps clicked by in the final stage of the Tour Down Under on Sunday, Lance Armstrong demonstrated that he had plenty of gas in the tank by attacking the peloton and briefly riding at the head of a breakaway.
Lance Armstrong may just have been testing his legs, but no one in the Tour Down Under peloton was going to see how far up the road he could get.
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