Team Sky has a new mascot for the coming season...
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It's a mega sun-burning day in Adelaide - Omega Pharma-Lotto riders apply copious quantities of sun cream...
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No worries - Matthew Hayman is practising his skills on the way to the race-circuit...
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Lance Armstrong signs-on for the last time in a his last-ever race outside of the USA...
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Stuart O'Grady leads the day's first escape away on the very first lap...
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HTC show their power in pursuit - no-one's getting away just yet...
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O'Grady perseveres for a few more laps - the veteran Aussie is having his best ride of the tour...
The escape is always in the sights of HTC - but the next lap-sprint goes to Michael Matthews...
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Can Matt Goss win the next sprint, and the stage, to win overall..?
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Adelaide enjoys its hottest day of the week - and its clearest skies...
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Mark Cavendish changes a wheel after tangling with an Euskatel rider - it's not been his week at all..!
Could this be Cameron Meyer's best-ever week...?
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Matthew Wilson throws himself into another escape to try and nullify the next bonus sprint - in fact, Allan Davis wins that to spoil Goss's chances...
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Lance is hurting today, the speed and the pressure too much - but he's just a few laps from semi-retirement..!
Niki Sorensen is in a new escape, as is O'Grady again - but they won't succeed...
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The sprint is on, but Goss, Greipel and Matthews are already out of contention...
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Ben Swift and Greg Henderson celebrate a Sky one-two on stage six, with Goss in third-place...
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Lance Armstrong thanks the crowd after getting a pair of RM Williams shoes as a farewell gift..!
Jose Luis Arrieta practises some Aboriginal music after his Movistar team won the team prize...
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Caneron Meyer is the winner of the 2011 Tour Down Under..!