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Evans takes big risk with team switch

Sports | Cycling
2009-11-4

CADEL Evans abandoned Silence Lotto to join BMC Racing Team in a bid to strengthen his claim for a maiden Tour de France victory, but the wheels could fall off the twice runner-up's challenge before the race even...

Evans wins time trial

Sports | Cycling
2009-6-9

AUSTRALIAN Cadel Evans looked on track for next month's Tour de France with a convincing victory in the opening 12.1-kilometer time trial of the Dauphine Libere stage race on Sunday. On a short course running...

Evans pulls out of Beijing event after freak injury

Sports | Cycling
2008-7-31

AUSTRALIA'S Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans has withdrawn from the time-trial at the Beijing Olympics after injuring his knee when he slipped on a wet floor at a team dinner after the Tour de France on Sunday....

Evans admits Team CSC rival was simply too strong

Sports | Cycling
2008-7-28

THE Tour de France, as Cadel Evans and every other yellow jersey contender likes to say, is never won in a day - but can be lost in a day. That day came for Evans on Saturday, when he lost out on making history...

Sastre on course to win Tour de France

Sports | Cycling
2008-7-27

SPANIARD Carlos Sastre was poised to win the Tour de France after surprisingly resisting Australia's Cadel Evans in yesterday's 53-kilometer time-trial won by German Stefan Schumacher. Gerolsteiner's Schumacher,...

Evans eyes rare double

Sport | Cycling
2007-8-21

CADEL Evans is confident next year could see him become the first man to win the Tour de France and a road cycling Olympic gold in the same year. A little over two weeks after finishing second behind Spain's Alberto...

Contador wins dope-tainted Tour

Sport | Cycling
2007-7-30

ALBERTO Contador won the Tour de France yesterday, a new, young and unlikely winner for the three-week race shaken to its core by doping scandals. The 24-year-old rider for the American Discovery Channel team was...