Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness

Rupert Guinness is a Sports Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald

Cycling

Evans slips as imperious Nibali seizes control

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans has conceded that his chances of winning the Giro d'Italia are gone after slipping more than four minutes behind race leader Vincenzo Nibali .

Cycling

Lancaster vows not to bomb on Evans

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness Vicenza: For the Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team, the pursuit for a breakthrough stage win in the Giro d'Italia has been frustrating, especially with their star sprinter Matt Goss having to quit the...

Cycling

Evans confirmed as Tour de France team leader

Australian Cadel Evans.

Rupert Guinness BMC team president quashes speculation that rising star Tejay van Garderen could take the helm.

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Evans still in with chance of winning Giro, says Kelly

Australia's Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness The race is for Italian Vincenzo Nibali to lose but all is not lost for Cadel Evans, says Irish cycling legend Sean Kelly.

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Evans hopes to beat odds

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness Logic says the odds are against Cadel Evans turning the Giro d'Italia upside down.

Cycling

Evans going all out to win Giro

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness With less than a week to go in Giro d'Italia, Cadel Evans starts getting "greedy".

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Giro leader braces for Evans' mountain attack

The Giro peloton.

Rupert Guinness Vincenzo Nibali is bracing himself for an all-out attack on his lead from Australian Cadel Evans in the last two stages of the Giro d'Italia in the mountains later this week.

Cycling

Evans sounds warning to race leader Nibali

Cadel Evans.

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans believes his form is getting better as the three week Giro d'Italia continues and warns that he is ready to take on Italian race leader Vincenzo Nibali and any other overall contender...

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Nibali prospers in the elements as Evans slips behind

Cadel Evans.

Rupert Guinness BARDONECCHIA: Cadel Evans was met with his first significant blow in the Giro d'Italia, losing precious time to the race leader, Vincenzo Nibali, in Saturday's 14th stage in the Alps, despite a...

Cycling

Friend turns foe in Alps

Supporters cheer Australia's Cadel Evans on during the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia from Cervere to Bardonecchia.

Rupert Guinness Former teammate central to Cadel Evans' loss of vital time to race leader Vincenzo Nibali.

Santambrogio leaves mateship behind - and Evans chasing

Australia's Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness He is a former teammate and the first rider in whom a teary Cadel Evans confided about a fractured elbow that might have cost him Tour de France victory in 2010.

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Evans holds his place in the mountains

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans holds on to his second place overall in the Giro d'Italia.

Cycling

Evans down on time but not hope

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness Logic says the odds are against Cadel Evans turning the Giro d'Italia upside down and toppling overall leader Vincenzo Nibali are slim.

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Wiggins' loss is Evans' gain as Giro hits Alps

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness in Treviso The chances of Cadel Evans finishing on the podium at the Giro d'Italia have firmed after British Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins lost more than three minutes in Thursday's 12th stage,...

Cycling

Wiggins' race heads downhill

Bradley Wiggins

Rupert Guinness BRADLEY Wiggins is where he has not been for years: down and out, struggling for solutions - let alone his winning form - and facing uncertainty as to what next.

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Evans' best hopes of Giro d'Italia success lie with following the leader

Australia's Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness The hope Cadel Evans has of winning the Giro d'Italia may be best served by Italian Vincenzo Nibali leading the race overall into its second week.

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Cadel can sit in Giro slipstream

Cadel Evans during the eighth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Rupert Guinness Australian's hopes of winning may be better served by Italian Vincenzo Nibali leading.

Cycling

Evans in best form since Tour win: Wiggins

Cadel Evans.

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans' form at the Giro d'Italia is his best since winning the Tour de France two years ago, says British Tour champion Bradley Wiggins.

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Wiggins predicts first test in the mountains could tip Giro 'upside down'

Cadel Evans

Rupert Guinness Cadel Evans has shown enough in the first eight days of the Giro d'Italia to raise belief that he is not only fit and strong, but also could be a serious contender for overall victory in the...

Cycling

Not such a know-it-all: Haas joins the nerdy class for ’bonkers’ Giro lesson

Nathan Haas.

Rupert Guinness Nathan Haas says he thought he "knew everything" in cycling before his Giro d'Italia grand tour debut, and admits the three-week race has become a 'masterclass' for him in the sport.