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• Greipel Tightens Grip
  January 20th, 2010
  

  by Talek Harris
  ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 20, 2010 (AFP) – Germany’s Andre Greipel extended his dominance of the Tour Down Under into stage two Wednesday, but a trailing Lance Armstrong warned the race was far from over.
  The HTC-Columbia rider produced a trademark sprint finish to beat the [...]

• Australian McEwen Not To Race Again This Season
  September 1st, 2009
  

  PARIS, Sept 1, 2009 (AFP) – Australian Robbie McEwen of the Katusha team has called an end to his “disastrous season” which has been marred by a bad fall and two other accidents.
  McEwen called his May 28 accident on the second stage of the Tour of Belgium as “by [...]

• McEwen Postpones Comeback Over Knee Pain
  August 18th, 2009
  

  ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug 17, 2009 (AFP) – Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen has been forced to pull out of his competitive comeback race, the Eneco Tour, after feeling pain in his knee, his Katusha team announced Monday.
  McEwen suffered several injuries, including a fractured tibia, in a crash on the Tour of Belgium [...]

• Three Riders Refuse Katusha Anti-Doping Rules
  June 7th, 2009
  

  Three prominent members of the Katusha cycling team are refusing to comply with new anti-doping rules imposed by the Russian-backed outfit, a team official said on Sunday.
  The trio who are refusing to sign contracts including the new conditions are Australian Robbie McEwen and Belgians Gert Steegmans and Kenny De [...]

• Robbie McEwen Rules Out Tour de France After Breaking Leg In Crash
  May 31st, 2009
  

  Australian sprint star Robbie McEwen has ruled himself out of taking part in the Tour de France after undergoing surgery on a fractured tibia.
  The 36-year-old Katusha rider underwent surgery on Thursday after suffering a heavy fall on the second stage of the Tour of Belgium in Knokke-Heist.
  [...]

• McEwen’s Belgium Curse Strikes Again, With Bozic In Lead At Tour of Belgium
  May 28th, 2009
  

  KNOKKE-HEIST, Belgium, May 28, 2009 (AFP) – Australian sprint star Robbie McEwen will miss the Tour de France after undergoing leg surgery following his second crash in Belgium in the last month, his Katusha team said Thursday.
  McEwen, 36, was admitted to hospital with what his team feared could [...]

• McEwen Suffers A Concussion But Avoids Broken Bones
  April 16th, 2009
  

  BRUSSELS, April 16, 2009 (AFP) – Australian cyclist Robbie McEwen revealed on Thursday that he suffered concussion but did not fracture any ribs after falling in the Grand Prix de l’Escaut in Schoten, Belgium.
  “I have concussion, but my ribs, my collarbone and my pelvis are all intact,” he told [...]

• Robbie McEwen Looks To Switch Teams To Help Tour Chances
  December 15th, 2008
  

  Australian Robbie McEwen says he hopes a
  change of team can help him return to Tour de France glory next year.
  McEwen, a 12-time Tour de France stage winner and three-time winner of the
  green jersey for the Tour’s leading sprinter, has switched from Belgium’s
  Silence-Lotto team to Russian-backed Katusha for 2009.
  It is [...]

• Robbie McEwen Wins Paris-Brussels Classic
  September 13th, 2008
  

  BRUSSELS, Sept 13, 2008 (AFP) – Australia’s Robbie McEwen won the Paris-Brussels classic cycling race for the fifth time on Saturday.
  The Silence rider, who has won the event four times consecutively, sprinted first across the line ahead of Belgium’s Gert Steegmans and Luca Paolini of Italy.

  Photo by: [...]

• Robbie McEwen Leads Australian Sweep In Hamburg
  September 7th, 2008
  

  HAMBURG, Germany, Sept 7, 2008 (AFP) – Robbie McEwen advanced Australia fair by winning the 213.7km Cyclassics ProTour event ahead of compatriots Mark Renshaw and Allan Davis as the green and gold ruled here on Sunday.
  The day after Germany’s Linus Gerdemann won the Tour of Germany, Silence Lotto’s [...]

• Russian Team Katusha Signs McEwen and Karpets
  September 1st, 2008
  

  PARIS, Sept 1, 2008 (AFP) – Future Russian cycling team Katusha, to be created from the Tinkoff formation, on Monday announced the recruitment of experienced Australian Robbie McEwen and Russian Vladimir Karpets.
  McEwen and Karpets will join up with Italian Filippo Pozzato and Belgian sprinter Gert Steegmans at their [...]

• Cadel Evans Is Recovering In Time For Alps
  July 19th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NIMES, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) – For someone who finished the runner-up
  by just 23 seconds last year, it is understandable that Cadel Evans is taking
  this year’s Tour de France one day at a time.
  And after his third day spent in the yellow jersey, the Australian is [...]

• Cavendish Looks To History-Making Tour Stage
  July 16th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  FOIX, France, July 16, 2008 (AFP) – If team Columbia deliver their ‘train’
  on time again for Britain’s Mark Cavendish, sprint rivals Oscar Freire and Robbie McEwen are likely to be left on the Tour de France platform.
  After 10 stages on this year’s race both [...]

• Cavendish Takes The Wind Out Of McEwen Sails
  July 9th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  CHATEAUROUX, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) – Robbie McEwen’s bid to add to his impressive haul of wins on the Tour de France was kicked into touch by bad luck and a fast Team Columbia train, highlighting Hincapie and Kirchen on the longest stage of the race [...]

• French Sprinter Romain Feillu Wearing Yellow, As Cofidis Rider Dumoulin Wins Stage 3
  July 7th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  NANTES, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) – Frenchman Romain Feillu took the biggest accolade of his career Monday when a successful breakaway that foxed the sprinters’ teams handed him the Tour de France yellow jersey Monday.
  Compatriot Samuel Dumoulin, of Cofidis, won the third stage [...]

• Robbie McEwen Is A Little Off Target, As Renshaw Delivers For Hushovd
  July 6th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  SAINT BRIEUC, France, July 7, 2008 (AFP) – Robbie McEwen’s bid for a first stage win on this year’s Tour de France was postponed for another day Sunday, but on the third stage the Aussie sprinter will be one to watch.
  Sunday’s second stage – [...]

• Manxman and Cavendish Sets Their Sights On Some Sprinters Glory
  July 5th, 2008
  

  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – Top cycling commentator Phil Liggett may have been joking when he said the three legs on the Isle of Man flag would come in handy for Mark Cavendish here at the Tour de France.
  The British sprinter, whose rocketing reputation as one of [...]

• What They Are Saying Ahead Of The Tour de France
  July 4th, 2008
  

  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – A selection of what they’re saying ahead of this year’s Tour de France, which begins here Saturday and ends on July 27:
  “If they had to take the fight against doping any further, they’d have to come and live in my house! I’ve [...]

• Robbie McEwen Sees Alejandro Valverde Striking First Blow
  July 4th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  BREST, France, July 4, 2008 (AFP) – In terms of team bonding, Aussie sprinter Robbie McEwen has done little to curry favor with team-mate Cadel Evans ahead of the Tour de France opener here Saturday.
  But given the bigger prize on offer at the end [...]

• Cadel Evans’ Tour de France Yellow Jersey Bid Puts McEwen In The Shadow
  June 16th, 2008
  

  Evans’ yellow jersey bid puts McEwen into the shade
  GOSSAU, Switzerland, June 17, 2008 (AFP) – Australian Robbie McEwen’s annual battle for the Tour de France green jersey has been delivered a blow before the start of next month’s race — by compatriot and team-mate Cadel Evans.
  Evans became Australia’s [...]

• Robbie McEwen Bags Season’s First Win In Romandie
  May 1st, 2008
  

  FRIBOURG, Switzerland, May 1, 2008 (AFP) – Australia’s Robbie McEwen, of Silence Lotto, bagged his first win of the season by outsprinting the bunch on the second stage of the Tour de Romandie here Thursday.
  Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati, of Liquigas, finished second with Danish one-day specialist Matti Breschel of [...]