Richie Porte (Tea🐼m Sky) off the front on Wil🔯lunga Hill (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Richie Porte (Team Sky) on his way to ♈the stage win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Old W෴illunga Hill is becoming a hugely popularཧ spot for the Santos Tour Down Under(Image credit: Sirotti)
Richie Por🔴te (Sky) celebrates his ඣimpressive win on Willunga Hill(Image credit: AFP)
Only five seconds made the difference from a repeat podium from the Australian men's National Road Race Championships held earlier in the month in Ballarat where 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans (BMC) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richie Porte (Sky) made it a 1-2-3 finish. This time, Porte would finish fourth in the six-stage race behind Gerrans, Evans and Italy's168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida).
Two-time national champion, Gerrans, held on to a one-second l😼ead over former world champion and Tour de France winner Ev🌟ans to become the first rider to win the Tour Down Under, now in its 16th year, on three occasions.
In talking about Gerrans' victory in Ballarat, Porte said: "Simon showed he is pretty quick – I mean, he won a bunch sprint here, too. It's always going to be hard to beat him here and he had a great team around him as well."
"I am quite happy with how the week went."
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