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Cadel Lee Evans (born 14 February 1977) is an Australian professional racing cyclist on the BMC team, and the reigning world road race champion. In 2007, Evans became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour. He has the highest Tour de France finishes for an Australian, coming second in 2007 and 2008. 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 mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He became the first Australian to win the UCI Road World Championships cycling event on 27 September 2009 in Mendrisio, Switzerland.[2] Evans was born in Katherine, Northern Territory, he is married to Chiara Passerini, an Italian pianist who he met at the end of 2002 after an introduction from a friend of her father's who assisted the Australian with lodgings near the training centre of his Mapei team (at the time). Evans inherited his surname from his great-grandfather who hailed from Wales. He also believes his first name is of Welsh origin.[3] Evans attended Eltham High School in Victoria, Australia during his teenage years .
[edit] Career[edit] Early days Evans started his international career as a member of the Australian Institute of Sport MTB team, under head coach, Heiko Salzwedel and MTB coach Damien Grundy. He won silver medals at the 1997 and 1999 under-23 world championships and bronze medals at the 1995 junior world road time trial championship and junior world mountain bike championship. He has ridden for Saeco (2001), Mapei (2002) and Team Telekom (2003–2004). For 2005 he joined Davitamon-Lotto and came eighth in his first Tour de France, the first Australian in the top ten since Phil Anderson. Early successes included overall wins in the 2001 and 2004 editions of the Tour of Austria, fifth in the Tour of Germany in 2005, a stage win of the Tour Down Under in 2002, winning the mountains classification in the Tour Down Under in 2006, 14th in the 2002 Giro d'Italia (he wore the leader's jersey, Maglia Rosa for one day), and Commonwealth Games time trial champion in 2002. [edit] 2006Evans bettered his performance in 2006, finishing fourth after the disqualification of Floyd Landis. He won the Tour de Romandie, beating the Spaniards Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde on the last stage, a 20 km time trial around Lausanne. [edit] 2007In the 2007 Tour de France, Evans finished runner-up to Contador. He won the stage 13 Time Trial and came second in the stage 19 Time Trial. Evans finished fourth in the 2007 Vuelta a Espana. He came fifth in the world championship and sixth in the final UCI ProTour race, the Giro di Lombardia, securing the 2007 UCI ProTour with 247 points ahead of Davide Rebellin and Alberto Contador. In 2006 and 2007 he was named Australian Cyclist of the Year. [edit] 2008Evans was a favorite to win the 2008 Tour de France because Contador was not allowed to participate as his team Astana were not invited. Evans held the yellow jersey from stages 10 to 14. However, during Alpe d'Huez on stage 17, Carlos Sastre of Team CSC took 2 minutes 15 seconds from Evans. By the penultimate stage time trial, Evans needed to ride 1 minute 34 seconds faster than Sastre. He beat Sastre and jumped to second place but remained 58 seconds behind at the end of the Tour. After recovering from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament,[4] Evans contested the 245 km mens road race at the Beijing Olympics, finishing 15th, 22 seconds behind Samuel Sánchez.[5] He placed fifth in the road time trial four days later. [edit] Social activismIn 2008, Evans wore a cycling undershirt with the Flag of Tibet and supported freedom for Tibet.[6][7] He said:
[edit] 2009Evans won the men's World Championship road race in Mendrisio, Switzerland on 27 September. The win came shortly after his third placing in the Vuelta a España, during which he wore the gold leader's jersey for a day, although his race was marred by mechanical failure in the way up the Sierra Nevada mountain finish. Poor team support hampered his 2009 Tour de France campaign and he was only able to finish in 30th place, 45 minutes behind winner Alberto Contador. He also scored victories in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali. The season saw Evans become one of Australia's most successful cyclists with two podium places at the Tour de France. He has joined an elite group of cyclists who have all worn all three leaders jerseys; the Maglia Rosa leaders jersey at the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) in 2002, the Yellow leaders jersey for 4 days in the 2008 Tour de France (Tour of France), and the Gold leaders Jersey in 2009 in the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain). There was much speculation at the end of the 2009 season of Evans looking for a new team to better support him at the 2010 Tour. After Evans became world champion he seemed to commit himself fully to helping teammate Philippe Gilbert. To many, this was evidence of a happier relationship between Evans and Silence-Lotto. However, it was then revealed that Evans was to depart the team, with the team citing his reason for leaving was "to look for new challenges".[8] It is believed that Evans wishes to capitalized on his "increased market value" whilst wearing the world champions jersey. A biography, "Cadel Evans: Close To Flying", co-authored by Rob Arnold and Evans, was published by Hardie Grant Books in November 2009.[9] In 2010, Evans will join BMC Racing Team.[10] [edit] Relationship with the mediaEvans is known for confrontation with media, fans and other cyclists.[11][12] He used a bodyguard at the 2008 Tour de France; it has been suggested that this sparked the tensions, as the more force was used to keep the media away from Evans, the more the attention became.[12][13] Evans lost his temper and batted away the hand of a journalist from his injured shoulder, shouted "Stand on my dog and I'll cut your head off" at a bystander who collided with his dog,[13] and headbutted a television camera.[14] The actions earned him the nickname "Cuddles" from ProCycling's features editor, Daniel Friebe,[1] who coined other nicknames in the peloton.[15] [edit] Palmarès
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