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Tour Down Under: Ethan Vernon wins wind-buffeted shortened stage 4 as second overall Jhonatan Narváez crashes out

Tobias Lund Andersen second and Laurence Pithie third while Jay Vine retained lead on penultimate stage

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'Moneyball, game theory': crash chaos dents Vine's Tour

Tour Down Under race leader Jay Vine lost two teammates, including defending champion Jhonatan Narvaez, to crashes in the shortened fourth stage.

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'Obviously we want to race for the win but there wasn't a lot we could do' – Jayco AlUla best of the rest with Mauro Schmid after UAE steamroll rivals on stage 2 of the Tour Down Under

Swiss champion takes third on stage behind race leader Jay Vine and his teammate Jhonatan Narváez who have carved out lead of around a minute in race usually decided by a handful of seconds

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Tour Down Under: Samuel Watson edges out Ethan Vernon for prologue victory

Laurence Pithie rounds out podium in 3.6km opener as Jay Vine takes fourth place

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'Ups and Down': Australian team racing for redemption

Ben O'Connor and his Jayco AlUla teammates are determined to put their road nationals blunder behind them and return to winning form at the Tour Down Under.

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'We have to make sure we get the job done' – Jayco AlUla work through National Championships travails to focus on tackling Tour Down Under

'Hopefully we can have almost the three of us playing around fighting for stages or fighting, obviously, for the overall as well' says team leader Ben O'Connor ahead of Australian WorldTour opener

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Home riders among favourites in open GC field – Analysing the Tour Down Under contenders

Jay Vine, Ben O'Connor and Jhonatan Narváez lead those hunting for the ochre jersey in Adelaide

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Jayco AlUla urged to stick tight after Perth disaster

The manager of Australian WorldTour team Jayco AlUla is urging their riders to rally at the Tour Down Under after they botched the road nationals finish.

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'That one's for you, mate' – Australian rider dedicates national title to WorldTour team boss who 'gave me the flick'

Former Picnic PostNL rider Patrick Eddy, now of Team Brennan, pulled off a dramatic victory

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Eddy shines, Jayco AlUla left rueing men's road race

While Patrick Eddy deserved to win the men's elite road race at the Australian championships, Jayco AlUla's tactics late in the race raised eyebrows.

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'I think I've found myself again' – Patrick Eddy bounces back from WorldTour contract non-renewal to emotional Australian title

23-year-old says he 'started to forget what it was like to win a bike race' after quiet start to pro career

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Eddy defies odds to win Australian road race crown

Pat Eddy has won the Australian elite men's road race title, defying the might of Jayco AlUla and sending a strong message to his old team.

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Patrick Eddy beats Luke Plapp to elite men's Australian road race title after Jayco AlUla's strength in numbers fails in dramatic final kilometre

Plapp second and Oscar Chamberlain rounds out the podium in final race of the 2026 Australian Road National Championships

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'Game theory': Vine out to crack road nationals code

After his strong ride in the time trial, Jay Vine has proved he is one of the riders to beat in Sunday's Australian road cycling championships road race.

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Vine, rising star claim time trials at road nationals

Jay Vine has dominated the men's event and Felicity Wilson-Haffenden has upset reigning champion Brodie Chapman to claim the Australian elite time trial crowns.

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Riders to watch at Australia's 2026 Road National Championships – Chapman and Plapp face tough time trial challenge, Jayco-AlUla holds trump card laden hand for road races

From Plapp, O'Connor and Vine to Roseman-Gannon, Bradbury and Chapman we look at some key riders in the running for the road and time trial titles

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'I look up to Caleb': Welsford's new contract advice

Sam Welsford, one of the drawcards at this week's Australian road cycling championships, has thanked fellow sprinter Caleb Ewan for advice on his new contract.

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Launching a new road racing season – A guide to Australia's 2026 sun-drenched opening block

A Perth National Championships entree for the locals before world descends for Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

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Breaking through at the Tour of Bright – The up-and-coming riders who stood out at the club race with a history of highlighting talent

From 17-year-old Neve Parslow's charge up Tawonga Gap alongside Brodie Chapman to the Mount Buffalo triumph of 19-year-old Levi Hone

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Upping the ante on Mt Buffalo as Brodie Chapman and Luke Plapp scoop up Tour of Bright overall, Katelyn Nicholson and Levi Hone win final stage

Charged chase up the final mountain squeezes top Strava times once again, with Sarah Gigante's QOM toppled

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Tour of Bright: Will Cooper's 'wasn't expecting that' stage 1 win as Talia Appleton repeats Tawonga triumph and Luke Plapp smashes Strava KOM

Australian champions Plapp and Brodie Chapman close off Saturday's racing with stage 2 time trial wins

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Korey Boddington named Australian cyclist of the year while Sarah Gigante and Jay Vine secure road awards

'Korey’s story of determination – learning to walk and talk again after his life-changing injuries, then dedicating himself to his Paralympic dream – challenges our assumptions about what we can all achieve' says AusCycling CEO

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Tour of Bright: The club-run race that's got Oscar Onley, Brodie Chapman and Luke Plapp pinning on a number in December

'I can go all out and see what happens' Onley told Cyclingnews as the fourth-placed finisher at Tour de France tests pre-season form by adding name to list of challengers to Plapp at home tour

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'We're going to strategically look at the races where we can pick up points' - Jayco-AlUla target UCI ranking in 2026 to avoid relegation pressures

'It is complicated, but that's the modern WorldTour' - New Sporting Manager Gene Bates tells Cyclingnews

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16 iterations and countless hours in a wind tunnel, how MAAP developed the jersey that Luke Plapp didn't want to take off

Aero jersey worn by Luke Plapp and Ben O'Connor during the Grand Tours designed to be the fastest, lightest and coolest fabric around

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