Tour Down Under Stage 3: Norwood > Paracombe, 143kms

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Jack Bobridge signs-on before a big stage three...

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Will Clarke is the first escaper on the climb away from the start...

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Alex Domont is chasing ahead of Calvin Watson and Lasse Norman-Hansen...

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The trio of chasers has caught Clarke and is now led by Watson...

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The peloton skirts the reservoir at Chain of Ponds with a three minute deficit...

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The TDU is still a race that allows race-radios - but maybe Laurent Didier would rather it did not...

Uni SA is the team doing the chasing for leader Bobridge...

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Norman-Hansen leads the escape around the Lobethal circuit, they are enjoying and maintaining a near-four-minute lead...

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Cadel Evans sweeps through a bend on a day that seems very important to the BMC leader...

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Cameron Meyer has become a worker for Orica-Green Edge, but who then is the team's leader..?

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Norman Hansen leads the escape through Mt Torrens with what has become a four-minute advantage...

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Marcel Kittel has suddenly begun a massive thrust from Giant-Alpecin in pursuit of the escape...

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Will Clarke is ending the stage as he bagen it, alone and out in front...

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Heinrich Haussler swoops to the front for IAM cycling, the final climb is minutes away...

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Geraint Thomas leads on the final, one-kilometre, ascent...

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Simon Geschke attacks with Pozzovivo...

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Richie Porte leads Cadel Evans and Tom Dumoulin in pursuit of Pozzovivo and Geschke...

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Porte, Evans, Dumoulin and Pozzovivo are just ahead of Rohan Dennis with 500-metres to go...

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Rohan Dennis wins stage three after attacking in the last 300-metres...

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Rohan Dennis is the new race-leader of the Tour Down Under..!

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