Cadel Evans

With Lance Armstrong long gone from the world of competitive cycling, Cadel Evans not only emerged as an honorable and respected replacement, but he also landed real high on AskMen's Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2011 list. Evans became the first Australian to ever win the Tour de France this past year. And at 34-years-old, he can also claim the title as the oldest man to win in 88 years. Better yet: his victory didn't include any doping allegations! He's fast, clean, and looks great in a...Read Full Story

Cadel Lee Evans (pronounced /kə'dɛl/,[2] born 14 February 1977) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. In 2007, Evans became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour. Before turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, first riding for the Diamondback MTB team, then for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country...Read Full Story

Cadel Lee Evans (pronounced /kə'dɛl/,[2] born 14 February 1977) is an Australian professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam BMC Racing Team and winner of the 2011 Tour de France. In 2007, Evans became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour. Before turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, first riding for the Diamondback MTB team, then for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country...Read Full Story

Above: Just a quick reminder of "old Cadel" He still needs someone to shave that dern unibrow.Above: the Schleck brothers tower over the squeaky voiced Aussie despite the lower steps on the podium. This is attributed to the fact that while being raised by wild dingoes in the outback; Cadel survived on babies stolen from Ayers Rock and vegemite sandwiches; stunting his physical growth and leaving him woefully unprepared for any kind of human interaction.First and foremost I would like to...Read Full Story

Cadel Evans Tour De France, Trailblazer Phil Anderson predicts Cadel Evans winning tour de France inspire the next generation of Australian cyclists to match their great deeds. Anderson was a pioneer of Australia’s road cycling in Europe during the 1980s and the first outside Europe to wear the coveted yellow jersey of the Tour. He was in the crowd in Grenoble on Saturday with a tour group when Evans destroyed race leader Andy Schleck in the time trial of 42.5 miles from start to capture the...Read Full Story

Cadel Evans of Australia and BMC Racing Team acknowledges the crowds applause on the podium after becoming the race leaders yellow jersey after the Individual Time Trial Stage 20 of the 2011 Tour de France on July 23, 2011 in Grenoble, France. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)HTC-Highroad’s Tony Martin laid down the best time in Saturday’s penultimate stage of the 2011 Tour de France, but the glory went to BMC Racing’s Cadel Evans, who outpaced his general classification rivals to move...Read Full Story

Cadel Evans Tour De France, Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck paid tribute to the Tour de France, Cadel Evans’s rival as the Australian took the coveted yellow jersey after the penultimate stage time-trial. “Cadel did the trial of his life, and deserves to win the Tour,” said Schleck, who had taken the lead in the race just 24 hours before the Frenchman Thomas Voeckler. Schleck took the 42.5 km race against the clock with a mattress 57 seconds on Evans and hoped that could take the robe floors to get...Read Full Story

Frank Schleck, Australia first won the Tour de France, said his 20-year emotional journey to the top of world cycling. Moments after crossing the line to claim the famous yellow jersey, Evans said: “We did it.” I thank all those who had faith in me. I could not be happier, “she said. Before his trip to Paris, where he was crowned winner after years of anguish and quasi-said,” I cannot believe me. ” With the coveted yellow jersey took the time trial the day before, at 34 years old, Barwon Head...Read Full Story

With all of its usual pomp and circumstance, the 2011 Tour de France came to a close today. Cadel Evans rode the parade route with the obligatory glass of champagne in hand, no one attacked the leader and the stage win went to the sprinters.Yellow jersey of overall leader, Australia's Cadel Evans lifts his bicycle in front of the Arc de Triomphe during the parade on the famous Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, after he won the 2011 Tour de France cycling race on July 24, 2011 at the end of the...Read Full Story

Australian Tour de France winner Cadel Evans and his wife Chiara Passerini are adopting a 12-month-old Ethiopian boy.The pair had given hints of the coming adoption on Twitter but confirmed to Fairfax Media that they hope to take the infant home to their house in Switzerland next month.The pair said they had applied to adopt an Ethiopian boy and this was the reason for their early departure from Australia on December 16."Going to Ethiopia was our reason for the early departure from Australia...Read Full Story