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    Evans offered Tour Down Under wildcard

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    Wed Nov 4, 2009 10:31pm EST
    Silence-Lotto team rider Cadel Evans of Australia addresses a news conference in Nazareth October 1, 2009. REUTERS/Thierry Roge

    SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's world road racing champion Cadel Evans will ride at next year's Tour Down Under against Lance Armstrong after his BMC Racing Team were offered a wildcard entry to the race.

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    Evans only recently signed for BMC Racing after winning the world title and Tour Down Under organizers were quick to offer the second-tier American team a wildcard into the January 17-24 ProTour event.

    Armstrong made his comeback to professional racing at this year's Tour Down Under and South Australian state premier Mike Rann said the addition of Evans was a coup for the event.

    "Never before has an Australian competed on Australian soil wearing the Rainbow Jersey," Rann said in a statement.

    "This may be the only chance to ever see two legends, in Lance Armstrong and Cadel Evans, compete against one another on Australian soil."

    (Reporting by Julian Linden; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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