Cycling: Elia Viviani wins the opening stage of the Tour Down Under

Italy's Elia Viviani slipped through a tiny gap near the finish line to win the first stage of the Tour Down Under. Viviani was tucked back in the peloton, behind triple world champion Peter Sagan, as riders raced towards the finish of the 129-kilometre stage at Port Adelaide. First Danny van Poppel of the Netherlands, then Germany's Maximilian Richard Walscheid hit the front in the straight sprint to the finish and Walscheid looked to have made the winning burst. Viviani claimed the win for his Quick Step team ahead of Walscheid while Italy's Jakub Mareczko was third. Sagan finished in eighth place with the same time as the winner.