Tom Boonen will take the gold leader's jersey into stage 3 of Tour of Qatar by three hundredths of a second, as Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team finished second to Garmin-Barricuda by seven seconds in the stage 2, 11.3 km team time trial on Tuesday.

Boonen was seen taking lengthy pulls at the front, and threw his bike over the line. That bike throw very well could have kept him in the general classification (GC) lead.

Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team sprinter extraordinaire Gerald Ciolek, who was just 20 seconds out in 37th place for general classification (GC), was on the right side of a field split up the first category 1 climb of Santos Tour Down Under in stage 4. A 48 man front group dropped 80 other members of the peloton on Menglers Hill Road at the 107.4 km mark. Ciolek and 10 to 12 riders then set themselves up perfectly for a sprint finish, which featured a slight downhill for the final 50 meters.

Oscar Freire (Katusha) won out of the dozen or so riders who crossed the line together, just barely beating out Ciolek. However, Ciolek was not only rewarded with a Santos Tour Down Under Stage 4 second place finish, but he now sits much farther up the list of GC contenders going into stage five. He is a mere six seconds from holding the Santos Tour Down Under Ochre Leader's Jersey, in fourth place.

So another stage over here in the Tour Down Under.

It was quite a nervous race at times, riding not too far from the coast, with a bit of a crosswind for most of the day. Which meant each corner, which isn't very often in this race, caused a bit of panic just in case somebody tried to cause a split. Sky and BMC towards the end of the race did eventually have a go, but after a few minutes of effort nothing really happened, so it seemed another sprint finish was how it was going to end up. Again it was Griepel who took the win, showing what good form he is in.