Cooke, though, enjoyed one of the most spectacular green jersey battles in recent Tour history in 2003.
Belgian sprint king Tom Boonen, wearing the green jersey, finished in seventh place.
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South Sydney chief executive Shane Richardson shared Crowe's optimism that Burgess will be pulling on the red and green jersey soon.
His dreams of the green jersey in the Tour, however, fell foul.
With some younger guys making a name for themselves, this year is probably O'Grady's last really good chance for the green jersey.
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Once again the team will be doubling up in their glory bids, with German sprinter Erik Zabel aiming to win back his green jersey off Robbie McEwen.
They arguably lack the strength in depth required for the Tour and the sprinters needed to lead in Robbie McEwen, who defends his green jersey for the team in 2003.
Australia's Robbie McEwen won the green jersey given to the best sprinter for a third time, and Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen earned the polka-dot jersey awarded to the best climber for a second year.
The usual stalwart of the green jersey, Erik Zabel, looks to have passed his peak, while O'Grady's countryman and the defending champion of the jersey, Robbie McEwen, has been struggling with injuries early this season.
Adding a sixth gold star to the famous yellow and green jersey will be difficult -- Brazil lost to Netherlands at the quarterfinal stage at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa -- but not impossible, Ronaldo says.
He claims his goal is simply to reach the finish line in Paris rather than be a contender for the green jersey, awarded to the winner of the points competition and frequently the prize for the best sprinter.
He came into the Tour as the favorite to claim the green points jersey, having won five of the eight stages of this year's Tour of California and shown his versatility in other races.
The twelve-hundred-acre property is now a ghost town inhabited only by steel dummies meant to scare off the ubiquitous Canada geese that squirt a carpet of green across middle Jersey.
An attempt to block plans for a new police station at Green Street has been defeated by Jersey States members.
So, with the dramatic backdrop of the Champs Elysees beckoning, Sastre has the yellow jersey, Oscar Freire the green, Bernard Kohl the polka dots, and Andy Schleck the white.
Either way, it's quite a fall from grace for Tebow, who was a two-time national champion with Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
Either way, it's quite a fall from grace for Tebow, who was a two-time national champion with the University of Florida, and whose No. 15 Broncos jersey ranked second in national sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
While fans have been buzzing about the idea ever since the league green-lit a cold-weather championship game in New Jersey's New Meadowlands, rules dictating minimum requirements for hotel rooms and practice facilities probably nix the idea.
The housing minister Deputy Andrew Green said the plans represented the biggest change to social housing in Jersey's history.
With his red non-contact jersey (designated for quarterbacks), Tebow stood out among his green-shirted teammates, speeding down the field in an effort to "tackle" returner Kyle Wilson.
The States of Jersey will be asked not to approve plans for the new police headquarters at Green Street car park.
Green, back at his home in Florida, wore his yellow and blue Boston Marathon jersey as he talked about the now-famous photo, his finisher's medal from the race propped on a shelf in his home office.
"The trees were bending sideways, (and) the sky just went really dark and green, " Mark Ventrini, a photographer, reported seeing as he headed toward Belmar, New Jersey.
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