The Tour Down Under once again is the opening race of the WorldTour calendar with just under three months until the South Australian race gets underway. Since ints 1999 introduction onto the calendar and elevation to the ProTour in 2008, the race has attracted the biggest names in the professional peloton. In 2017, world champion Peter Sagan is the star attraction as he returns for the first time since 2010 to make his Bora-Hansgrohe debut.
Baden Cooke, a four-time stage winner at the race, has exclusively previewed all six stages of the 2017 Tour Down Under and the People's Choice Classic criterium for Cyclingnews. Cooke, who rode for the likes of FDJ, Barloword, Saxo Bank and Orica-GreenEdge during his career, was a regular at the Tour Down Under between 1999 and 2011 accumulating intimate knowledge of the roads in and around Adelaide.
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January 15, People's Choice Classic: Adelaide - Adelaide 50.6km
"As per usual the People's Choice Classic will be a day for the sprinters. Many of the GC guys who can still be a bit jet lagged, may just take is easy or even peel off in the end because it won't go towards the overall. The People's Choice Classic is a really good opportunity for the sprint teams to sharpen up and get their sprint trains ready for the other stages so except them to be in full flight. Marcel Kittel has won this in the past and it's also a good course for the likes of Caleb Ewan.
"I was always coming to the Tour Down Under from Australia and I was ready to go so I didn't need a dress rehearsal for the race. This race is more for the Europeans than the Australian's because they've had to travel 25 hours so and need to blow the cobwebs out."
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