Redondo Beach, CA, February 26, 2006 – With the finale of the eight-day [tag]Amgen Tour of California[/tag] cycling road race continuing to draw fans in droves to Redondo Beach to total more than 1.3 million spectators for the week, California resident [tag]Floyd Landis[/tag] of the [tag]Phonak Hearing Systems Team[/tag] was crowned the overall winner of [...]
Curtis is currently at the finish rounding up some photos and video updates. The preliminary results show [tag]T-Mobile[/tag] rider [tag]Olaf Pollack[/tag] taking the stage ahead of [tag]Riccardo Ricco[/tag] ([tag]Prodir Saunier Duval[/tag]) and American speedster [tag]Freddy Rodriguez[/tag] ([tag]Davitamon Lotto[/tag]).
Our man CZ reports record crowds at the finish at the Amgen HQ in Thousand Oaks [...]
Stage 5 of the [tag]Tour of California[/tag], rolling into Santa Barbara on Friday, proved almost a carbon copy of the other stage with a Cat. 1 climb, with [tag]Discovery Channel’s[/tag] [tag]George Hincapie[/tag] out-sprinting a small group to take the victory.
With the win, 32-year-old Hincapie rode himself into the sprint leader’s jersey. [...]
By: Brenon Daly
Argentinean speedster [tag]JJ Haedo[/tag] scalped another set of sprinters Thursday, taking the fourth stage of the [tag]Tour of California[/tag] and slipping on the sprint leader’s jersey.
Haedo’s victory, in a time of 4:41, gives his recently formed [tag]Toyota-United[/tag]Pro Team its second win at the inaugural Tour of California. After easily putting three bike lengths [...]
Tour of California Stage 4 tt
Floyd Landis has won Stage 3 of the Tour of California. He rode the 27km TT in 35:58 the only rider to go under 36 minutes, nearly 30 seconds faster than his closest rival Dave Zabriskie of CSC. Floyd takes over leadership of the race that continues tommorrow with a [...]