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07.02.10HTC–Columbia looking for Tour de France stage wins on several frontsPhil Ligget, Bob Stapleton and Paul Sherwen Team HTC-Columbia brings a squad to this year’s Tour de France capable of winning stages of all types, team manager Bob Stapleton said Friday at a team press conference held before a packed house at the race’s headquarter in Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena. “We’re going to grab whatever success we can,” Stapleton said. “And I believe that flexibility gives us an edge.” Though the team’s star sprinter Mark Cavendish won six stages last year, HTC’s message at this Tour — which was Webcast by new partner Skype — is that the team is not expecting a similar ...
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06.02.10ProTour California event a Continental catch-22The Amgen Tour of California has made a rapid progression toward being one of the most important races on the international calendar in its brief five-year history, and has aims at stepping up a level to the top level of the sport. But the prospect of the race entering into the ProTour has some of the US-based Continental teams concerned. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has three levels of professional teams: ProTour being the highest, Professional Continental and Continental as the lowest. ...
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05.27.10Tour of California for 2010? ‘Yep,’ AEG president saysThe Amgen Tour of California will be back for 2011, Anschutz Entertainment Group president Andrew Messick told VeloNews this week. When asked whether the race, and presenting sponsor Amgen, will be back for 2011, Messick replied pointedly, “Yep.” A source who declined to be named confirmed that headline sponsor Amgen, which was founded in Thousand Oaks, California, is signed on for the 2011 edition, the final year of a two-year extension of the company’s original partnership agreement. Messick confirmed Sunday that his team will begin work on next year’s route in early June and plans to pursue the event’s first true mountaintop finish ...
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05.25.10BMC Racing Team fly the flag on home soilUS Pro Continental team BMC Racing Team assembled a strong squad for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California. Swiss Steve Morabito has held his own in the sunshine state and after five stages finds himself as one of ten men poised 31 seconds from Michael Rogers' (HTC-Columbia) overall lead. Stage five of the race proved to be a day of high drama both on-and-off the bike. On Thursday morning, BMC star George Hincapie woke to news that his former-US Postal Service teammate Floyd Landis had levelled ...
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05.19.10California contenders play the pre-race gameAs the Amgen Tour of California gets ready to rumble on Sunday, the event's big names assembled in downtown Sacramento, including Levi Leipheimer, RadioShack teammate Lance Armstrong, Fabian Saxo Bank's Cancellara and Andy Schleck, Dave Zabriskie, Mark Cavendish and George Hincapie. There were the usual jokes, the playing-down of chances and an air of excitement surrounding the race's fifth edition. Arguably the best field in the event's brief history, there will be a star for every occasion during ...
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05.19.10Amgen Tour of California favourites: Can Leipheimer make it four?For all that has changed at the Amgen Tour of California in 2010, the contenders for the race’s overall title remain largely the same heading into its fifth edition. Despite moving from February to May and creating a direct clash with the Giro d’Italia, California has still managed to attract some big general classification names. Holding the race later in the year should change the weather conditions in which the event is held, with the lack of snow enabling the route to include bigger, ...
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03.22.10Shack says Cali’ trumps GiroTeam RadioShack won’t be going to the Giro d’Italia this year — but that was the team’s choice rather than a snub by organizers RCS Sport, says Johan Bruyneel. Writing on his blog, Bruyneel confirmed that RadioShack would not be racing the Giro, adding, “but the truth is that we communicated this to the Giro organizers, RCS. I like the Giro, I think it’s a great race, but to be quite honest, we are putting all our focus on the Amgen Tour of California.” Bruyneel said the weeklong American stage race holds more value to its sponsors and thus is key to ...
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01.27.104,500 volunteers needed for Amgen Tour of CaliforniaPress Release More Than 4,500 Volunteers Needed for May Event LOS ANGELES (January 27, 2010) – Volunteer opportunities for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California are now posted online at the official race Web site, www.amgentourofcalifornia.com <http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com> . Anyone wishing to volunteer for an opportunity to participate in the fifth-annual cycling race can apply online for positions, including hospitality, volunteer course marshals, security, and media operations, among others. Considered cycling’s most important and successful road race in the United States, some of America’s most accomplished cyclists, including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Dave Zabriskie and George Hincapie have already committed to participating in the ...
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02.21.092009 ATOC stage 6, Live Coverage archive11:39 AM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of the sixth stage of the Amgen Tour of California, a 15-mile (24 kilometers in the more advanced parts of the world) individual time trial around one of our favorite communities in California, the Danish-themed village of Solvang. Today's route is familiar to riders who've taken on the Tour of California before. It's an ideal test against the clock with varying terrain that includes significant stretches of flat and gradually ...read more
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02.21.09On Tap at AToC: Stage 7 – A break at the Rose Bowl?With just two days left in the nine-day Amgen Tour of California, only six of the 17 teams have won a stage. That means that 11 others are still eager to taste victory, especially those teams that have major American sponsors. Top of this list of teams is Rabobank, followed by Liquigas and Quick Step. Although Rabobank is based in the Netherlands, it’s a worldwide corporation that has a presence in California as a community bank, even with a branch in Solvang, where Friday’s time trial ...read more
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02.17.09Corbett back with OUCH-Maxxis — sort ofFloyd Landis is not the only man making a comeback with the OUCH-Maxxis team at the Amgen Tour of California. After a year away, former Health Net-Maxxis team director Jeff Corbett is back with the organization he helped create. Corbett founded the 7Up pro team in 1998, managing and racing on its various incarnations, as the team became 7Up-Colorado Cyclist in 2000 and 7Up-Nutra Fig in 2001. A broken back in 2001 ended his tenure as a rider/director, and after two years directing ...read more
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02.07.09Fields of dreamsWhile the Amgen Tour of California owner AEG has claimed that the field for its 2009 edition is the “greatest ever assembled in our country,” that may not be so. Before the California race started bringing top European teams to this continent, there were other great stage races that boasted star-studded fields, starting with Canada’s Tour de la Nouvelle France in the early-1970s through the final edition of the Tour DuPont in 1996. But there’s no question that the three world road ...read more
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