Evans sticks out tongue at the team bent on his destruction

Rupert Guinness in Cuneo, Italy AFTER the first of three brutal days in the Alps, Cadel Evans has dared to give his rival CSC team a verbal tickle-up that smacked of either glowing confidence or audacity. Asked if a weight was lifted off his shoulders when he lost the yellow jersey to Luxembourg's Frank Schleck in the 183-kilometre 15th stage from Embrun to Prato Nevoso - after five days in the lead - Evans said: "Absolutely. CSC, for how strong their team is, it sure took them a while to get the jersey, didn't it?" Evans, whose Silence-Lotto team is not even close to matching CSC for collective strength, said he was happy that CSC now had the burden of leading the race. "With the team they have, they deserve to have [it]," he said on Monday's rest day in Cuneo, Italy. "The responsibilities that come with it will be in their... [read full story]