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Gallery: Riders get the chance to meet Adelaide's 'other locals'

By Cycling News

published 14 January 2012

Tour village provides unique experience for the pros

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(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

Vacansoleil DCM's bikes(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Cameron Mayer (GreenEdge)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Team Sky's Edvald Boassan Hagen(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Greg Van Avermart (BMC)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

The girls from GreenEdge with a cuddly Koala(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Oscar Freire (Katusha)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

Local hero Mark Renshaw (Rabobank)(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

GreenEdge's Shayne Bannan(Image credit: Bettini Photo)

(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

Gert Steegmans(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

Amanda Spratt(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

Melissa Hoskins(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

Not a sight you see everyday.(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

(Image credit: Mark Gunter)

A select number of the professional peloton were given a very special experience on Saturday in the Tour Down Under village when they were introduced to some of Adelaide's native fauna.

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Koalas, snakes, kangaroos - there was plenty to see and most of the pros welcomed the opportunity to do something different ahead of the race's official opener - the Down Under Classic

Gert Steegmans (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) was in attendance, as were many of the GreenEdge women's team including Amanda Spratt and Melissa Hoskins.

See the full gallery here.