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New team, same great sprinter: Sam Bennett wins Tour Down Under opener

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TANUNDA, Australia (CT) – You can understand why Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep) was nervous before today’s stage. It was his first UCI race of the year, his first significant outing with his new team, and to top it all off, he’d copped a drubbing from fellow sprinter Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) at the Schwalbe Classic a few …

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Caleb Ewan blasts to easy victory at Tour Down Under criterium

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ADELAIDE, Australia (CT) – Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) has started his season in perfect fashion, winning the Tour Down Under’s curtain-raiser criterium for a record-breaking fourth time. In what was his first race of the year, Ewan sprinted to victory by several bike lengths ahead of European champion Elia Viviani (Cofidis) and his lead-out man …

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Winder wins the Women’s Tour Down Under as Frapporti claims the final stage

ADELAIDE, Australia (CT) – US champion Ruth Winder (Trek-Segafredo) has held on to a narrow advantage to win the 2020 Santos Women’s Tour Down Under. Simona Frapporti (BePink) took out stage honours in a sprint from a breakaway. Winder went into the final-stage circuit race with a seven-second advantage over Liane Lippert (Sunweb) and Amanda …

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How Ruth Winder dethroned Amanda Spratt to lead the Women’s Tour Down Under

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STIRLING, Australia (CT) – Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott) said yesterday that Women’s Tour Down Under wasn’t over. That today’s stage was very tough. That Ruth Winder (Trek-Segafredo) was looking very strong. She was right on all three counts. On today’s stage 3 into Stirling, in a tough uphill sprint, Winder punched away from a heavily reduced …

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Spratt surges to Women’s Tour Down Under lead … but the race isn’t over yet

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BIRDWOOD, Australia (CT) – Step 1: Amanda Spratt wins a stage and takes the overall lead. Step 2: Spratt holds that lead through to the end of the race. That’s how the past three editions of the Women’s Tour Down Under have gone. On today’s second stage of the 2020 edition, Spratt and her team …

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