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10th Tour Down Under - ProT, Australia, January 20-27, 2008

Tour Down Under - Stage 1 - Tuesday, January 22: Mawson Lakes - Angaston, 129 km

Silence-Lotto riders
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Lounging about a café
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The loudest shirt competition
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The lead bunch
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Tasmanian Karl Menzies (Australia UNISA) lost time after crashing
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Credit Agricole Team Manager, Serge Beucherie, congratulates Mark Renshaw
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A guarded walk: With the national jersey comes fame for 2008 Australian Road Race Champion
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Bernard Eisel (Team High Road) from Austria
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Wes Sulzberger (Australia-UNISA) signs on in Mawson Lakes
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Robbie McEwen (Silence-Lotto) has won more stages of the Tour Down Under
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A neutral-spares moto-pilot has the team's wheel specifics
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Frenchman David Moncuitie (Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone) is a long way from home
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The leading trio (L-R): Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone), Dimitri Champion (Bouygues Telecom),
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Dimitri Champion (Bouygues Telecom) corners ahead of his partners in crime
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The peloton weren't smelling the roses at the half-way mark of the 129km stage
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Mickael Buffaz (left) of the Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone team edges out Dimitri Champion (Bouygues Telecom)
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Some of the Tour convoy make their way under the banner
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The field were all together by the time they hit Angaston and the sprint
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) take the stage with the rest of the Tour behind him
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A delighted Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) from Bathurst in New South Wales
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Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis-Le Credit Par Telephone) was awarded the Hindmarsh Most Aggressive rider's jersey
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The SA Lotteries Sprint Points jersey for stage one went to Mickael Buffaz
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) gets his podium kisses after being presented
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Local boy Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC)
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Bobbie McEwen (Silence-Lotto)
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As usual fans lined
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The main bunch makes its way
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole)
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Christophe Kern and Laszlo Bodrogi (Credit Agricole)
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The peloton rides through
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The peloton rides past the palms
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15km from the finish the hopeful
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The three breakaways close to home,
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The sprint was furious.
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole) was far too strong
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole)
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Matthew Lloyd (Silence-Lotto)
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Miguel Indurian pleased the crowd
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Mark Renshaw (Credit Agricole)
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Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis)
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Jose Rojas (Caisse D'Epargne)
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Mickael Buffaz (Cofidis)
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Philippe Gilbert (Francaise Des Jeux)
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Mark Renshaw(Credit Agricole)
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Mark Renshaw(Credit Agricole)
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Kjell Carlstrom (Liquigas)
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