Stay in touch with the ProTour road cycling season with SBS's cycling blog, featuring race reports, video highlights and blog coverage of every race of 2008, as well as details of SBS's racing coverage. http://www.sbs.com.au//blog/107834/cycling-central Mike Tomalaris has gathered together a small echelon of cycling journalists to spin the Tour roulette and see just who comes out as yellow jersey favourite for the 2008 Tour de France. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/108021/cadel-evans-ready-to-step-up-to-top-place Mike Tomalaris has made some big calls in the past when it comes to the Tour de France. But this could be the biggest one yet, as he contemplates the wreckage from another round of pre-race drug outings. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107996/this-tour-will-be-dope-free-no-really-it-will The body responsible for organising the Tour de France has stuck by its ban on the 2007 Tour champion Alberto Contador and his Astana team. This leaves the way open for Aussie Cadel Evans, or does it, asks Mike Tomalaris. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107975/early-signs-show-cadel-is-the-tour-favourite Alberto Contador may not have won a stage in this year's Giro, but he's proven to be the complete all-rounder, playing by the rules, and was cool throughout. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107953/contador-a-deserving-giro-champion When Alberto Contador stood on the winner's dais at the 2007 Tour de France, his victory was shrouded with rumour and suspicion because of his alleged links to doping. If the Spaniard hangs on to the pink jersey in Milan tomorrow should he brushed with the same innuendos? http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107952/contador-still-dogged-by-dope-rumours One mountain, one time-trial and 21 seconds separates the Giro's top contenders from glory. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107951/contador-di-luca-and-ricco-and-the-mountain- As the Giro starts to wind down, and the blog opportunities start to dry up, this might be the best chance to look ahead to the Tour de France and predict the Australians likely to be selected to make it to the start line in Brest on July 5. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107943/giro-resets-the-form-guide-for-the-coming-tour With an eye to the upcoming Tour de France, Mike Tomalaris spots a rider on the Silence-Lotto team who has the engine to match team leader, Cadel Evans. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107924/cadels-team-face-tough-decisions-before-the-tour The dispute between the ASO and the UCI has turned the UCI Pro-Tour series into a provberial non-event, with few cycling fans knowing (or caring) who heads the Pro-Tour rankings. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107902/cycling-squabbles-turn-the-pro-tour-into-a-shambles The strongest riders in the peloton are showing their form, now that the hills have arrived in the 2008 Giro. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107899/stage-15---the-cream-is-rising-to-the-top Stage 14 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia was won Emanuele Sella of Team CSF Group Navigare, but Astana's Alberto Contador is just 5 seconds off the lead and ready to pounce. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107898/stage-14-five-moments-that-will-decide-the-giro Aussie Graeme Brown has the legs and the heart to win bunch sprints in any peloton. So why have his fans had to endure such frustration following his career, asks Michael Tomalaris. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107895/could-have-been-a-champion-graeme-brown Italian Daniele Bennati pipped Robbie McEwen and Mark Cavendish in Stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia. Leaving Mike Tomalaris to ask where the next generation of Aussie champions will come from. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107889/cadel-on-the-verge-of-great-things Alessandro Bertolini has won his first-ever stage of the Giro d'Italia and it happened in part, because of the fall which took out one of the three riders sprinting for the line. As a cyclist himself, Mike Tomalaris has hit the bitumen from time to time, and reflects on the calamity. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107888/giro-stage-11---crash-calamity Lampre's Marzio Bruseghin won a damp time trial in in Stage 10 of the Giro d'Italia overnight, but it was Astana's overall performance that has caught Mike Tomalaris's eye. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107885/contador-time-trial-blitz-should-have-the-tours-organisers-thinking Mike Tomalaris has watched Robbie McEwen from the days the young Queenslander was the youngster of the bunch, and reckons he's got work to do to be a serious threat for the Tour de France's green jersey. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107870/robbie-mcewen-short-on-legs-in-the-sprints Mike Tomalaris has suffered for the Giro, and it kicks off months of late nights for SBS's cycling reporter, who has endured illness and the onset of the antipodean winter as he reports on the Northern Hemisphere cycling tours. After a week of the Giro, he's allowed himself the luxury of picking the eventual winners - again. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107869/weeks-end-form-guide---the-giros-week-one-winners Gabriele Bosisio (LPR Brakes) took the stage win, but Mike Tomalaris saw something in the return to form of Astana's Alberto Contador, whose brilliant win in last year's Tour has been tainted by a drugs controversy. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107868/bosisio-wins-but-contador-shows-signs-of-return-to-form Mike Tomalaris wonders why a second-tier Italian rider like Matteo Priamo can blitz an internationally lauded cycling field on his home turf, but lauds the improvement of race leader Giovanni Visconti. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107864/in-admiration-of-the-riders-of-the-azzuri As Pavel Brutt showed some serious strength in keep away rivals to take Stage 5 of the Giro, Mike reflects on the alleged road rage attack by a driver on a group of cyclists, which included 2005 German training crash survivor Kate Nichols. http://www.sbs.com.au/blogarticle/107861/road-rage-and-training-riders-