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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 [...]

The Lance and Levi Show

Livestrong.com has been providing video throughout the Giro d’Italia. This one, recorded from the back of the Astana bus on Friday, was fun, especially toward the end.
Lance and Levi Before Stage 13 — powered by http://www.livestrong.com

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Last One In, First One Out – An Easy Day At The Office

The Land of LeviSolvang, CA (February 22, 2008) – A review of the overall standings going into Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California would have given the most ardent, let alone the most inexperienced, cycling fan the impression that the title was still in the balance.
Levi Leipheimer (Astana) ended any speculation of who [...]

Sunday Reading

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Levi Leipheimer, who rides for the Astana Pro Cycling Team, displays a T-shirt given to him on behalf of a petition to allow him to ride in the Tour de France on the eve of the Amgen Tour of Californi. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)
– San Francisco Chronicle: Race alterations may put new [...]

Listening to Levi

Speaking of good interviews (see Granny’s interview below), VeloNews has a one-on-one with Levi Leipheimer:

Following Discovery Channel boss Johan Bruyneel to the new-look Astana team will keep Leipheimer in the familiar – and winning – team ambiance, where he’ll join defending Tour champ Alberto Contador with a two-year contract.
Leipheimer hopes to hit the repeat [...]

Real Comfort

By all accounts, Levi Leipheimer (Discovery Channel) didn’t need to win today’s 29km ITT in Branson to insure that the 2007 season would be his best to date.
The win, his 5th victory in the race of truth this year, came on the heels of his second US National Championship jersey [his first in the Road [...]

Time Trial to Levi, the Tour to Contador

Levi Leipheimer strains on his way to win the 19th stage of the Tour de France, a 55.5-kilometer (34.52-mile) individual time trial between Cognac and Angouleme in central France on Saturday. Overall leader Alberto Contador of Spain retained the yellow jersey by 23 seconds over Cadel Evans of Australia and by 31 seconds over Leipheimer. [...]

A Good Day at the Dauphine for Discovery

World pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins (Cofidis) tore through the 4.2-kilometer prologue time trial of the 2007 Dauphiné Libéré, narrowly edging out defending Dauphiné champion Levi Leipheimer (Discovery) on Sunday.
Wiggins covered the course in 4:50, one second better than Leipheimer and two seconds better than Andrey Kashechkin (Astana). Leipheimer’s teammate, George Hincapie, finished fourth, three seconds [...]