THERE is speculation that Australian Olympic medal hope Cadel Evans has been injured after a night partying in Paris to celebrate his podium finish in the Tour de France.
Melbourne radio station SEN quoted a witness who claims to have seen Evans “hobbling” with an apparent knee injury at a Tour after-party.
The witness contacted SEN host David Schwartz and told him he had seen the injured Evans at the party and the injury was to his medial ligament.
If the reports are confirmed, the injury could rule Evans out of competing in Beijing.
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Australian rider Cadel Evans of the Silence team has been handed the top bib of number one, traditionally reserved for the winner of previous year’s Tour de France or his team, organisers said.
Evans, runner-up in the 2007 Tour de France, has benefited from the absence of last year’s winner Alberto Contador of Spain and the dissolution of his Discovery Channel team.
Last year, for the first time in the race’s history, the top bib number started at 11 as organisers decided to leave out 1-10 owing to American Floyd Landis’s absence from the ra
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CADEL Evans is quite happy to wear a big target on his back in the Tour de France.
Many of the Australian’s peers, past and present, including seven-time winner Lance Armstrong and 2007 champion Alberto Contador, have branded him the favourite for this year’s race.
“I hope they’re right,” Evans, the 2007 runner-up by only 23 seconds, said. “I’m as interested as anyone to find out how the tour goes and, of course, how I go.”
Contador will not defend his Tour de France title, starting Saturday night (Melbourne time), because race organisers did not invite his Astana team, which was embroiled in a number of doping cases last year while under different management.
The Spaniard recently tipped Evans, who has been given the No. 1 bib because of Contador’s absence, to become the first Australian to win the yellow jersey.
“He’s a solid rider who can really make time differences count in the time trials,” Contador said.
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WIDELY touted as the man to beat at this year’s Tour, Cadel Evans, 31, will start the race in Brest on Saturday with the No1 bib on his back.
The Victorian was second in last year’s Tour, 23sec behind Alberto Contador who will not start this year’s event.
The number one was not used during last year’s event as the doping case that stripped 2006 winner Floyd Landis of his title meant that that result was still under dispute.
Oscar Pereiro was declared the winner of the 2006 Tour and will be the only previous winner to start this year’s race.
Yesterday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Landis’s appeal against the two-year doping ban for testing positive for synthetic testosterone on the 17th stage of the 2006 Tour.
He was also ordered to pay $US100,000 ($105,000) towards the cost of arbitration over the ban, which started on January 30, 2007.
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Leading 2008 Tour de France favourite Cadel Evans of Australia believes victory this year in cycling’s blue riband event would have equal worth despite the absence of last year’s winner Alberto Contador of Spain.
Asked if the victory would be devalued with no Contador racing, Evans stated flatly: “Not really.
“A lot of people have asked me about this and I’m not annoyed about it, but not really, no.
“I don’t make the rules, I just abide by them,” the 31-year-old Silence-Lotto team leader added.
Contador’s Astana squad have been barred following the doping scandals that rocked last year’s race prior to Contador riding for the team.
Evans, who finished runner-up last year a mere 23 seconds behind the Spaniard after 3,547 kilometres of racing, assumed the role of top contender.
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Australia’s Cadel Evans will saddle up as the Tour de France favourite this Saturday with a chance of making history and settling some scores in the process.
Evans came agonisingly close to winning the yellow jersey in 2007, finishing only 23 seconds behind Spanish rival Alberto Contador in a race that, some argue, was artificially modified by the presence of Danish climber Michael Rasmussen.
This year Rasmussen and Contador are both absent, Evans with one main rival in Spaniard Alejandro Valverde and a less-fancied handful of other contenders.
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AS the world’s best cyclists shape up for the Tour de France, Cadel Evans explains why he’ll be taking on the cheats as much as the mountains.
THE Tour de France is stamped as an event that plumbs the depths of human endurance and spirit.
It’s been described as a physical challenge like something out of Greek mythology, where competitors dispatch rivals along the way with an iron-willed brutality.
Nowhere will this be more apparent than in the 2008 Tour, where riders must tackle gut-wrenching ascents, including the highest pass in France — the 2880m Bonette-Restefonds — and the legendary 21-hairpin climb to alpine ski resort L’Alpe d’Huez.
Since its birth in 1903, the Tour has not simply set the standard for bike races, but has come to represent one of the great spectacles of international TV sports coverage.
Year after year, cameras have captured how the Tour has proved a highly dangerous pursuit not only for cyclists, but also media and officials.
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Tour de France favourite Cadel Evans was worried about his knee but the week of racing at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré reassured him about his chances to be at the peak of his form in the Tour de France next week, he told Cyclingnews’ Jean-François Quénet in the French Alps.
Cadel Evans seemed pretty relaxed at the end of the mountain stages in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. He came in second overall again – a position he claimed last year behind Christophe Moreau, before getting the same result at the Tour de France behind Alberto Contador. He was not afraid to attack Alejandro Valverde while climbing up to La Toussuire, although the headwind didn’t give him much hope. “I’m climbing well but not well enough for the win,” was his first comment after the stage.
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Like Valverde, Evans trains high
Like rival Alejandro Valverde, Australian Cadel Evans has been training at high altitude in light of the upcoming Tour de France, July 5 to 27. The 31 year-old of Silence-Lotto, second in the 2007 Tour de France, has been training near Passo Stelvio in Italy since last Friday.
The 2757-metre Passo Stelvio is the fourth highest paved road in the Alps. Spaniard Valverde has been training in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Andalucía, Spain, and taking in climbs between 1,500 and 2,000 metres.
Evans has been training with team-mates Dario Cioni, Mario Aerts, Yaroslav Popovych, Christophe Brandt, Johan Van Summeren, Wim Vansevenant and Greg Van Avermaet.
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