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After the tough finish a🗹t Willunga on the penultimate stage, the sprinters had another chance to shine on the 90km criterium that brought the curtain down on the 2012 Santos Tour Down൩ Under in Adelaide on Sunday.

With so many of the world’s top sprinters on show in Australia, including 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alessandro Petacchi, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Renshaw, Matt Goss and Oscar Freire, i🔴t was always going to be tough for a plucky escapee like Cameron Meyer to stay clear of the baying peloton.

Adding to the intri🌟gue of the fi🎃nal day was the tense battle for the ochre jersey of race winner, with Simon Gerrans (GreenEdge) entering the stage in the lead but locked on the same time as the threatening Alejandro Valverde (Movistar).

In the event, Gerrans and GreenEdge successfully marked the controversial Spaniard to seal overall victory, while André Greipౠel roared to the stage win. In doing so, the German showed once again that he is a step ahead of the rest of the sprinting fraternity at this ea💙rly juncture in the season.

Mark Gunter was on hand to record an eventful day’s racing for posterity and you can see his fine gallery of pictures here.