TOUR DOWN UNDER STAGE 6: INEVITABLY, GREIPEL

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It was inevitable really. After taking the Down Under Classic and three stages of the Tour Down Under, Team High Road?s powerful German sprinter André Greipel won the final 88-kilometre criterium to wrap up the overall classification.

Greipel didn?t have it all his own way. He lost the first intermediate sprint to Allan Davis, allowing the Australian to close the gap overall.

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STAGE SIX
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FINAL OVERALL

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Sports journalist Lionel Birnie has written professionally for Sunday Times, Procycling and of course Cycling Weekly. He is also an author, publisher, and co-founder of The Cycling Podcast. His first experience covering the Tour de France came in 1999, and he has presented The Cycling Podcast with Richard Moore and Daniel Friebe since 2013. He founded Peloton Publishing in 2010 and has ghostwritten and published the autobiography of Sean Kelly, as well as a number of other sports icons.