Riding through the wind farm
Riding through the wind farm
Riding through the wind farm
Leipheimer drives the five-man break
Fans line the Sierra ascent
Leipheimer appreciated the assist from a seven-time Tour winner
Disco' dialing it up
Toyota's Chris Wherry meets fans in Stockton
The peloton rolls out of town
After forming up early in the stage, the break starts the Patterson climb through a wind farm.
Hincapie at the front of the Discovery chase
The race leader's team got little help from others
The national champion was a work horse all day
His big effort over, Basso works his way up Sierra road
World champion Paolo Bettini put on a big chase all the way into San Jose
Ahead, Leipheimer joins up with the day's winning move
Big crowds near the top
With Bettini and a big group charging hard, Leipheimer drives the break toward the finish
Voigt takes the win...
... and Leipheimer keeps his jersey.
Danielson working it
Argentinean ace J.J. Haedo blasted to the front of another all-ProTour sprint finish Tuesday to win the second stage of the Amgen Tour of California. After yesterday’s chaotic finish, Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) was happy to have remained intact and safely inside an upright peloton after three circuits of downtown Sacramento concluded the 116-mile stage from his hometown of Santa Rosa.
Ignatiev wins againMikhail Ignatiev is quickly proving he can bump shoulders with the big boys. The 21-year-old Russian won for the second time in a week with a victory Tuesday in the 44th Trofeo Laigueglia in Italy. The Tinkoff Credit Systems rider – who won the third stage last week at the Tour Méditerranéen – put down a surprise attack with about 7km to go after the peloton split going over the 690m Passo Balestrino in the 188km hilly march. The 2004 Olympic points champion had enough in the tank to hold off some chasing Italians to snag the win. Coming through second at four seconds
Haedo times it perfectly
. . . and off Haedo goes
. . . Julich and O'Grady hit the front . . .
The Navigators and T-Mobile got things rolling . . .
This time, no commissaires were required
The stage podium
Clocking in and going to work
Another scenic
Basso on the job
The finish-line crowd awaits a show, and a show they got
A musical sendoff
Fit for an angel?
Bettini on the first climb
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For the second year in a row, American Levi Leipheimer took the podium of the Amgen Tour of California as the race leader in his hometown of Santa Rosa. This year, however, it wasn’t under circumstances the Discovery Channel rider would have chosen. Australian sprinter Graeme Brown (Rabobank) won Monday's Stage 1 after Leipheimer went down in a 50-rider pile-up with two 3-mile laps of a downtown finishing circuit remaining in the 156.4km stage.
The domestic Priority Health team enjoyed a great first day in its first Tour of California, with Ben Jacques-Maynes taking third in the prologue and Brian Sheedy winning the race’s first King of the Mountains jersey. "This whole team is really coming together well," said Jacques-Maynes before Sunday’s prologue. "I think we’re really going to show ourselves. People may not have heard of us before now; we’ve been an upstart team. But people are really going to know us by the end of this tour." Racing the Tour of California last year under Sierra Nevada’s banner, Jacques-Maynes muscled his
Freire wins in RutaOscar Freire drove home the bunch Monday to win the second stage of the Ruta del Sol, a 156.6km stage from Vegas del Genil to Cazorla in southern Spain. The three-time world champion held off Francisco José Ventoso (Saunier Duval-Prodir) in the mass sprint to snag his second win of the 2007 season. The Rabobank sprinter, who just missed victory in Sunday’s opener after Dario Cioni (Predictor-Lotto) held off a long breakaway, clawed within one second of Cioni’s lead thanks to time bonuses. The race continues Tuesday with the third stage. Hamilton satisfied, eyes Georgia
A last-ditch meeting Monday between the UCI and ASO made little headway toward solving the disagreements threatening to push the ProTour league into chaos. The UCI issued a terse statement Monday evening saying it would be reviewing its options on how to deal with the upstart race organizers after being snubbed yet again by officials from ASO, the organizers of such events as the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Nice. "ASO has staked its position, with contempt of the function and legitimacy of the UCI as an international federation, and plans to substitute it with a destabilizing
Narrow, nervous and windy — that was the report from Stage 1 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California, which saw more than one rider hit the deck between Sausalito and Santa Rosa. But Casey Gibson's shots remind us that it's not all pain and suffering out there. Take a peek.
Mike Gann in Sedona
Leipheimer drilling it
He'll take the jersey to his hometown of Santa Rosa today
Basso races past Coit Tower
World TT champ Cancellara
The ever-smiling Horner
Julich, back to racing after a tough 2006
O'Grady represents for Oz
Vande Velde
U.S. TT champ Zabriskie
Jacques-Maynes
Leipheimer in an unscarred yellow jersey
Despite crashing on the finishing circuit, Leipheimer retains the yellow jersey
The crash in sequence: Going . . .
. . . going . . .
. . . really going . . .
. . . and gone.
Levi and friends at the start in Sausalito
Hincapie and Zabriskie chat it up before the gun
Rolling out of town
Discovery keeping a tight leash on the bunch
Peterson manages to slip away
Bettini has a chat at the back
Abraham was one of the day's casualties
Fans pack the Coleman Valley KOM
Where did you ride today?
Another scenic
T-Mobile drilling it, right before the big crash
And Levi enjoying another day in yellow
The fast, furious finish
Bettini and Leipheimer chat it up
The long and winding road
More of the same
Oh, let's have a break, whaddaya say?
Disco' drilling it
Curb to curb