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Article: Cycl: McEwen first Aussie to win Tour green jersey
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- July 29, 2002
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Cycl: McEwen first Aussie to win Tour green jersey
PARIS, July 28 Reuters - Robbie McEwen became the first Australian
to win the Tour
de France green points jersey when he took the final stage on the
Champs Elysees here
today.
The 30 year-old rider from Brisbane won the green jersey with 280
points, 19 more than
six-times winner Erik Zabel of Germany.
Fellow Australians Stuart O'Grady and Baden Cooke finished third
and fourth with 208
and 198 points respectively.
The only other Australian to climb on to the Tour de France winner'
s podium was Phil
Anderson, who won the white jersey awarded to the best young rider,
in 1982.
McEwen beat Cooke and Damien ...