Sutton wins stage, Greipel wins Tour

Cadel Evans finished a surprise sixth overall and Lance Armstrong ended another
successful visit as Andre Greipel won his second Tour Down Under.
Cycling's new super squad, Team Sky, ended the week the way they started, going
one-two in an Adelaide street race.
Greipel finished fifth behind stage-six winner, Australian Team Sky rider Chris
Sutton, to confirm his 11-second overall win over Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez.
The German sprint star won three stages and joins Adelaide favourite Stuart O'Grady
as the only man to win two editions of the race.
"Greipel was really on another level here, he prepared (for) this race as nobody
else (did), I hear he was here three weeks before and this was definitely a goal for
him," said Armstrong's long-time team manager Johan Bruyneel.
But the highlight of the Tour, and an all-time great moment in Australian cycling
history, was Saturday's spectacular racing at Willunga during the fifth stage.
Evans impressed at Willunga when he sparked a four-man break and at one point
threatened to take the race lead from Greipel, only for the attack to be reeled in
at the finish.
Evans finished sixth at 21 seconds, a great start to his year in the rainbow jersey
as the reigning men's elite road race world champion.
He admitted to surprise about his form during the week and had come here mainly to
start working with his new team, BMC.
Armstrong finished 25th overall at a minute and three seconds and, like Evans, has
started a big year in promising form.
"Lance is good, he's a lot different (to) last year, physically his form is a lot
better, he feels good in the bunch and he feels good in the team," Bruyneel said.
"So that's three things that are a lot better than last year."
Strict security at the stage six finish meant Armstrong was unavailable to most
media before he left Adelaide on Sunday night in his private jet.
Sutton had finished second to New Zealand teammate Greg Henderson last Sunday night
at the stand-alone Cancer Council Classic street race.
On Sunday, their placings were reversed as Sutton had the biggest win of his young
career and Henderson took third overall.
It was the only Australian stage win of the Tour.
Not even a race motorbike hitting and wrecking his back wheel soon after the finish
could spoil Sutton's mood.
His father, Australian cycling coach and former world champion Gary Sutton, was
emotional after watching his son win.
"My sister was saying he (Gary) nearly had a heart attack, so I hope he's alright,"
Sutton said.
"It's the biggest win of my career.
"There goes a rear wheel - I think our mechanic will be happy, that's less weight
they had to take back to the UK."
Australians Wes Sulzberger and Trent Lowe joined with Italian Fabio Sabatini in a
break that gained 43 seconds on the bunch, but they were caught well before the
finish.
Two other Australians who impressed in the Tour were Robbie McEwen, who finished
fourth overall, and Luke Roberts, who was fifth.