The Crikey Cadel Crocodi🗹le ha made a few Tour Down Under appearances(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Vineyards are a common vista at the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
With no tea🔥m buses𒁃, riders get ready for the stages in team vans(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Palms trees and vineyards. Must be Australia(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A row of palms trees(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Marcel Kittel has two criterium wins in Adelaide but is yet to win a st🥂age(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Simon Gerrans at the 2014 TDU team presentation(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tom-Jelte Slagter hasn't been back to the race since h🐲is 2013ꦐ victory(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bernard Hinault has also been a TDU 'legend'(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Jens Voigt in classic 'attack mode' (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Damien Howson and Phili🐓ppe Gilbert shared the aggressive jersey back in 2012(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Hold on! Takashi🗹 Miyazawa st𓆏ruggles to contain the joey (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Julian Kern looking more like a mummy than a cycliꦺst(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Andy Schleck rode the TDU during his career(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A past and future star of t♑he Australian spriting, Caleb Ewan and Robbie McEwan(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
One of th𒆙e benefits of riding in the grupet꧙to at the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
It's Greg LeMond to hold a joey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans 𒐪had a custom painted bike for his final Tour Down Under appeara✤nce(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
2015 Australian nationa✤l champion Heinrich Haussler (IAM Cycling)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Marcel Kittel has w🌺on ෴the last two criteriums that open the Tour Down Under(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lawson Craddock gets a selfie with a kꦚoala in the race vill🐬age(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans in the ochre race leaders jersey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A crash on the Adelaide circuit which finishes off the Tour Down Und🅷er(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Simon Ge💎rr👍ans has won the race three times, the last time being 2014(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Easy as it looks, Andre Greipel iಌs the alltime stage winner at the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
♑Willunga Hill is a favourite for the riders and fans alike(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The race winning move by Simon Gerrans in 2014(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Sir Chris Hoy has been one of the TDU 'legends' (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Just another ride by the beach(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Jordan Kerby doing what th𒁃e UniSA team do best, attacking(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Simon Gerrans is usually all smiles at the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cadel Evans shakes the hand of then🐈 PM K🍬evin Rudd in 2010(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lance Armstrong was always a fan favourite(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Quick Step celebrate Allan Davis' win in 2009(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lance Armstrong ro🅠de with Astana when he made his TDU debut(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The TDU is a scenic race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Then PM Kevin Rudd with Andre Greipel in 200꧙8 when the ♈German won the race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Allan Peiper with the Colombia Highroad team (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The TDU is known as being a little less serious𒁏 than the big European races(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Andre Grei𝓡pel has been a regular♏ winner at the TDU since his first appearance(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A time before smartphone(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alberto🅺 Contador is another former TDU stage winner(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Orica-GreenEdge sportဣs director Matt White celebrate👍s a stage win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Former TDU winner Stuart O'Grady with his family(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Caisse d'Epargne, and now Movistar, ꦫhave enjoyed lots of success do🌠wn udner(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
HTC celebrate Andre Greipel's overall win in 2010(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alejando Valve꧋rde and Simon Gerrans' rivalry at its 𓆉peak in 2012(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Martin Kolher 🥂may be Swiss but he's a fan of Australia ꦬas his boomerang tattoo suggests(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Oscar Freire is also a former sta🌸ge winner at the race(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Eddy Merckx was the TDU 'legend' in 2012(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Manuel Quinziato and Alessandro Bal꧅lan not looking too pleased with their joey(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
You can count on Will Clarkeꩲbeing aggressive at the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lance Armstrong on the stage for the final🅠 time at the TDU showingᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ his RM Williams to the crowd(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Travis Meyer launching an attack(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Cameron Meyer was the 2011 TDU champion(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
There was always 🤪lots of media attention for Lance💙 Armstrong when he rode the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Matthews first WorldTour was at the TDU in 💧2011(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The TDU ra🥀ce director 🍌has been Mike Turtursince day one(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Mark Cavendish doesn't h꧟ave greaꦏt memories of the TDU(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Robbie McEwan celebrat🍬es a TDU stage win as national champion(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The 2015 WorldTour only concluded last Sunday with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Il Lombardi but its already just 100 days until the first race of the 2016 calendar gets underway in Adelaide, Australia with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour Down Under.
The Australian race has been the first on the WorldTour calendar since it joined the top ranks of❀ the sport in 2008. Australian riders have been the outright best performers in the 17 editions of the race so far, winning the overall on ten occasions. While no rider has managed to defend their title yet, Simon Gerrans has three wins to his name while Andre Greipel is the most successful non-Au🦋stralian with two overall victories.
Rohan Dennis (BMC) will be looking to end that trend next January havingꦏ won the 2015 edition of the race.
The 2016 edition of the race features several regular finishes in Stirling, Victor Harbour and Willunga Hill while the iconic Adelaide climb, Norton Summit, will make its debut on stage 4. Once again there will be an Adelaide city criterium, known as the Down Under Classic, kick off proceedings before the race gets underway for real with stage 1 taking the riders from Pro😼spect to Lyndoch in 130.8 kilometres with a mix of finishes to follow in order to entice the peloton down u🐽nder.
We've put together a gallery of some of the best photographs from the Tour Down ✃Under for you to enjoy and start the countdo🐼wn to the 2016 WorldTour.
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