Tour Down Under 2016 recap
‘Who’s in form?’ we asked, a touch rhetorically, ahead of this year’s Tour Down Under. We concluded that the most likely answer was ‘a bunch of Australians’. It wasn’t the most specific race prediction, but…
Gerrans leads and Hansen continues in decidely Australian start to 2015 Giro d’Italia
It wasn’t an Australian start in the sense that it started in Australia. I know the Giro plays it fast and loose with its definition of ‘Italia’ but that really would be a bit much….
Simon Gerrans hits his target
I did say after the Tour Down Under that Liege-Bastogne-Liege was one of Simon Gerrans’ targets. Target hit. Just look at his cheery munchkin face. He’s delighted. Form This year’s race was something of a…
Simon Gerrans refuses to wait just one second
Two stages for the price of one in this update, because, you know, it was Saturday yesterday and I simply couldn’t be bothered. I hadn’t actually intended to go ‘stage by stage’ for the Tour…
Simon Gerrans wins a wearied sprint to take the lead in the Tour Down Under
Simon Gerrans leads the Tour Down Under after stage one. I said he was a contender and he’ll be looking to hold the ochre jersey right the way to the finish now. That’s right –…
Orica YellowEdge
The stage four team time trial has led to some semblance of order in the general classification. It still doesn’t make a huge amount of sense, but we’ve sloughed off at least some of the…
Simon Gerrans denies Peter Sagan
If you thought the stage two finish was close, it wasn’t. The gap was a full second. The gap between Simon Gerrans and Peter Sagan on stage three was way less than that – more…
