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Route Details Announced for 2010 Tour of California
Los Angeles, CA – Specific route details for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California professional cycling race were revealed this week through a progression of daily video posts highlighting each of the race’s eight stages. Each of the specially produced “features” was created by Local Organizing Committees representing the 17 host cities. The [...]
Snap Judgment – 2010 Amgen Tour of California Route
The Amgen Tour of California returns next year in May, rather than in its traditional February calendar spot with an eight-day stage race that will take participants from Nevada City to the Thousand Oaks area, home base of Amgen. Many of the top American riders, including defending champion, Levi Leipheimer, have already announced their intentions [...]
Wrapping Up The 2009 Amgen Tour of California
What He SaidFor those of you who didn’t think Lance Armstrong (Astana) could play second fiddle, you would be wrong. According to some accounts, he actually enjoyed it.
Although his cancer initiative, LIVESTRONG, seemed ubiquitous and his supporters out in full force during the Amgen Tour of California, the man strangely was not. You [...]
Schleck The Elder, Leipheimer The Overall – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 8
Escondido, CA – February 22, 2009 – On the newest stage of the Amgen Tour of California, a stage which had riders traverse the highest peak in the race’s short history, it was only appropriate that a climber should win it.
Fränk Schleck provided the 2009 Amgen Tour of California with Team Saxo Bank bookends (teammate [...]
Nocentini By A Whisker – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 7
Pasadena, CA – February 21, 2009 – The day after the General Classification was all but decided, the penultimate stage of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California offered up the same difficult, hilly and technical course that was used as the final stage of last year’s race.
With fans lining the demanding finishing circuit through the [...]
Twice Is Nice, But Three Is Just Right – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 6
Solvang, CA – February 20, 2009 – As he crossed the finish line, two-time Amgen Tour of California Champion, Levi Leipheimer, held up three fingers to signify a third consecutive tour victory.
Although there are still 2 days remaining in the 2009 edition of the race, Leipheimer insured another overall victory by taking today’s critical Stage [...]
Bikes, Personalities, and Scenes – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 6
Photos: Leonard Basobas
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On In Solvang – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 6
Solvang, CA – February, 20, 2009 – With current race leader Levi Leipheimer (Astana) already taking note of the two riders immediately behind him in the General Classification, the two-time defending Amgen Tour of California Champion should be hard to beat on the 24 km course with which he is all too familiar.
“It’s going to [...]
Manxman Rules Robles – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 5
Mark Cavendish Doubles Up, Leipheimer Maintains Lead Heading Into Solvang Time Trial
Paso Robles, CA – February 19, 2009 – For the first time in the race’s short but storied history, the Amgen Tour of California welcomed the city of Paso Robles as a host city. Situated halfway between the Golden States’ two main metropolises, [...]
Bikes, Personalities, and Scenes – 2009 Amgen Tour of California Stage 5
Photos: Leonard Basobas
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