Greig Leach

Team ARA Australian Cycling Team can always be counted on to light up the Tour Down Under. It took a bit for the peloton to get remotely interested in racing, so it was Alyssa Polites (ARA) who went off the front before the first intermediate sprint of the day. I am sure she hoped to have some company but found herself on her own with another seventy kilometers left to race. It would be a tall order to hold off the entire peloton all of the way back to Aldiaga. However, there is the first sprint jersey and the first Queen of the Mountains jersey to be had should she not win the stage.