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Mike Tomalaris
Mike Tomalaris is SBS's cycling presenter, who has covered the Tour de France for 15 years. Mike is a keen cyclist himself, and covers a few hundred kilometres a week in a social weekend bunch ride. For cycling fans around Australia, Mike Tomalaris is cycling.
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Enlarge textCadel Evans' disastrous collapse in the Col de Madeleine belied an inner struggle with a secret injury, a fact that now to how tough he is, writes Michael Tomalaris.
Team BMC's Cadel Evans (Getty)
topQuiet success for Australia
Australian success at this year's Tour de France has been one of quiet personal achievement, writes Mike Tomalaris.
Saxo Bank's Stuart O'Grady (Getty)
Lance Armstrong now has no choice but to set aside his ambitions and help Alberto Contador to a second Tour de France win, writes Mike Tomalaris.
Team Astana's Alberto Contador (AAP)
How different things might have been for Team Quickstep in the Tour de France if they had picked an in form Allan Davis rather than an uninterested Tom Boonen, writes Mike Tomalaris.
Tom Boonen has just been going through the motions at the Tour de France (Getty)
Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't
Unable to attack his opponents nor satisfy his fans, Cadel Evans finds himself in a difficult situation, writes Mike Tomalaris.
Cadel Evans attempts to animate the Tour de France (Getty)
Cadel Evans has no choice but to change his style of racing and attack, writes Mile Tomalaris in Montpellier.
Cadel Evans needs to turn to plan B (AAP)
It's the Mark Cavendish show over here in the Tour de France and I must say the folk who have crossed the Channel are becoming quite unbearable at the success of their British superstar.
Team Columbia's Mark Cavendish (AAP)
How times have changed since my first visit to the Tour de France.
The Tour de France has gone from local to global (Getty)
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Mike Tomalaris is SBS's cycling presenter, who has covered the Tour de France for 15 years. Mike is a keen cyclist himself, and covers a few hundred kilometres a week in a social weekend bunch ride. For cycling fans around Australia, Mike Tomalaris is cycling.
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