Alejandro Valverde showed his class in today's fifth stage of the Tour Down Under by winning the king of the mountains and the stage as well. Here is the race report by Peter Walsh and here is video of the finish with Phil Liggett's commentary .

Tomorrow, the race heads for the hills so Friday's fourth stage was the last chance for Andre Greipel to put himself one nearer to the record number of stage wins in this Australian classic and he blew it. The sprint for the line, here, was won by Oscar Friere and Greipel also lost the race leader's jersey to Martin Kohler of BMC. Stage wrap up by Peter Walsh here.

MIVA trainer session is on tonight at Pleasant Valley Elementary School. Come and grind to the Sufferfest Revolver session.  

Most of the cycling media sites are slow on this so here is Phil Liggett's summing-up of stage three. For those who are just interested in the leader, Andre Greipel is still firmly in command, having given the boot to the other sprinters again.

 

Here is the stage two report from Phil Liggett, with Paul Sherwen. Courtesy of Steephill.TV