Posts Tagged ‘Tour Down Under’
Source: TDU Website Germany’s Andre Griepel today won overall honours in the Tour Down Under and he did it in style claiming his fourth stage win of the six stage event. Seventy thousand fans lined the Adelaide City Council street circuit in perfect summer weather for a thrilling finale to the opening UCI ProTour event [...]
Action and interviews from stage 5 of the Tour Down Under — the toughest day of the tour. Featuring Phil Liggett, stage winner and overall leader Andre Greipel, and British rider Jeremy Hunt.
Source: TDU Website Germany’s Andre Griepel stomped on hopes of a local win to celebrate Australia Day when he claimed his third stage victory to take over the lead in the Tour Down Under. The Team High Road cyclist sprinted home in a time of 3hr26min46sec edging out Australian Allan Davis (Australia-UniSA) and Spaniard Jose [...]
KUALA LUMPUR – RIDERS bound for Le Tour de Langkawi 2008 have regarded the Fraser’s Hill climb as “equally challenging” as the Genting climb with some expecting an open race and exciting competition in the race which starts in Alor Setar on Feb 9. Some of the riders, who are now competing in the Tour [...]
Source: TDU Website After several attacks from the gun, after 20km we have a lead group of five that formed including Greg Henderson (NZl) of Team High Road, Carlo Westphal (Ger) of Gerolsteiner and Aitor Galdos Alonso (Spa) of Euskaltel – Euskadi, along with Julien Mazet (Fra) of Astana and Renaud Dion (Fra) from Ag2R-La [...]
About 2 years ago, one of the most shocking news in the world of sports was during the Soccer World Cup 2006 final match between France and Italy. French captain Zidane headbutts Italian defender Materazzi in extra time and eventually France lose 5-3 in the following penalty shootout.
Source: Turkeypress Tour Down Under chief commissaire Michael Robb described the headbutt by Italian Elia Rigotto which put Australian cyclist Mathew Hayman out of the race Friday as the most vicious he had seen in a long time. Rigotto knocked Hayman off his bike with 300 metres (980 feet) of the 134 kilometre (80 mile) [...]
Source: Yahoo News ADELAIDE, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Italian cyclist Elia Rigotto was disaqualified from the Tour Down Under on Friday for causing an accident that left Australia’s Mathew Hayman with a broken collarbone. Race officials accused the Italian of “headbutting” the Australian in a frantic sprint to the finish line. He was disqualified from [...]
Source: TDU Website Tour Down Under Race Doctor Peter Barnes has advised that Rabobank rider Mathew Hayman, who crashed today in the final 300 metres of the sprint into Strathalbyn at the end of Stage 4, has undergone successful surgery to repair his fractured left collar bone.
Highlights by ABC News: This video has footage from the controversial crash at the end of the race that led to the disqualification of Elia Rigotto after he headbutted Matthew Hayman. It also includes comment from Phil Liggett, overall leader Mark Renshaw, and stage winner Andre Greipel.
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