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2020 Race Torquay, Features, Previews, Racing -

Preview: 14 things you should know about the inaugural Race Torquay

The Tour Down Under might be finished but the Australian summer of racing continues on apace. Next up on the docket: Race Torquay. Here’s what you need to know about this sort-of new addition to the calendar and how the racing might unfold. Race Torquay is part of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race …

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2020 Tour Down Under, Features, Racing -

Of bushfires and bike racing

The Tour Down Under was a great race, but it was just sport. The real struggles are happening off the bike, in the farms and forests and fields around this dry country, as people battle to save or rebuild their lives.

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2020 Tour Down Under, Features, Photo galleries, Racing -

Big, beautiful photos from the 2020 Tour Down Under

The first men’s WorldTour event of the season is now over. The pre-race favourite — Richie Porte — won it, but it was far from a straightforward victory. Porte took the ochre leader’s jersey on stage 3, lost it on stage 5 and then had to fight to get it back on the final stage. …

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Bjarne Riis is back. How are we supposed to feel about that?

ADELAIDE, Australia (CT) — Bjarne Riis is back, wandering the halls of the Hilton Adelaide, slipping between cars at Tour Down Under start lines, smiling for cameras and shaking hands and running a WorldTour team. He’s different, he says. So is cycling. And he’s sorry. And we can trust him. “If I fail again, throw …

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George Bennett’s missing ribs and Olympic hopes

ADELAIDE, Australia (CT) – George Bennett’s 2019 season ended in an unconventional spot: under a surgeon’s scalpel, with his chest being sliced open in a bid to revitalise his career. But three months after that invasive procedure, at the beginning of a crucial season, Bennett finds himself in more familiar territory: hoping that the excruciating …

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