2007 Tour of California

[ThePrez]

Holy crap, check out the start list.  (especially the dreamteams of Discovery and CSC.

ProTour Teams

Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (USA)
Ivan Basso (I)
Antonio "Tony" Cruz (USA)
Tom Danielson (USA)
George Hincapie (USA)
Levi Leipheimer (USA)
Jason McCartney (USA)
Tomas Vaitkus (Lit)
Brian Vandborg (Dk)

Team CSC (Dk)
Fabian Cancellara (Swi)
Juan Jose Haedo (Arg)
Bobby Julich (USA)
Karsten Kroon (Nl)
Stuart O'Grady (Aus)
Christian Vande Velde (USA)
Jens Voigt (G)
David "Dave" Zabriskie (USA)

Quick Step-Innergetic (B)
Paolo Bettini (I)
Mauro Facci (I)
Leonardo Scarselli (I)
Bram Tankink (Nl)
Matteo Tosatto (I)
Jurgen Van De Walle (B)
Geert Verheyen (B)
Giovanni Visconti (I)

Predictor-Lotto (B)
Mario Aerts (B)
Bart Dockx (B)
Nick Gates (Aus)
Chris Horner (USA)
Nic Ingels (B)
Josep Jufre Pou (Sp)
Matthew Lloyd (Aus)
Fred Rodriguez (USA)

Rabobank Cycling Team (Nl)
Mauricio Albert Ardila Cano (Col)
Graeme Brown (Aus)
Bram De Groot (Nl)
Theo Eltink (Nl)
Robert Gesink (Nl)
Mathew Hayman (Aus)
Grischa Niermann (G)
Michael Rasmussen (Dk)

T-Mobile Team (G)
Michael Barry (Can)
Gerald Ciolek (G)
Adam Hansen (Aus)
Greg Henderson (NZ)
Kim Kirchen (Lux)
Aaron Olson (USA)
Jakob Piil (Dk)
Michael Rogers (Aus)

Liquigas Pro Cycling Team (I)
Kjell Carlstrom (Fin)
Mauro Da Dalto (I)
Enrico Gasparotto (I)
Luca Paolini (I)
Franco Pellizotti (I)
Manuel Quinziato (I)
Charles Wegelius (GBR)
Frederik Willems (B)

Crédit Agricole (F)
Dimitri Fofonov (KAZ)
Sebastien Hinault (F)
Thor Hushovd (NOR)
Mads Kaggestad (NOR)
Christophe Kern (F)
Christophe Laurent (F)
Cyril Lemoine (F)
Jean Marc Marino (F)

Gerolsteiner (G)
Robert Förster (G)
Torsten Heikmann (G)
Bernhard Kohl (A)
Sven Krauss (G)
Volker Ordowski (G)
Fabian Wegmann (G)
Peter Wrolich (A)
Oliver Zaugg (Swi)

[AndresGonzo]

if they dont take all 3 jerseys i dont know what i'll do

[ThePrez]

so Leipheimer took the Prologue yesterday, now its about time for today's sprint finish.  Just a few km's left.  They are going 34 mph right now.

[ThePrez]

...15:31 PST    147km/9.4km to go
And the high pace is making some of the riders come off the back....

And there's been a crash! Riders are down on the left hand side at the finish... we'll try to get some info on who it is.

15:33 PST   
It's a major crash - half the field is on the ground at the finishing straight, and this is well outside the protected final kilometer. Riders will lose time, but Levi Leipheimer is up and riding. No word on if he was involved in that crash...

  I can't take the suspense.

[ThePrez]

Hell ya, Leipheimer won the TT by 18 seconds over second place Jens Voigt.  What a great ride.  I actually guessed 29:37 would be the best time, and with his 29:40 time, I was only 3 seconds off.  We will see tomorrow if that was close enough for me to win two cycling dvds. 

[mjriebsc]

are those DVDs of the ToC?

[ThePrez]

no, the paris roubaix and one other one.  (cobbles baby, and the other " baby)

[mjriebsc]

sounds sweet

[bmacattak]

yay levi!!! jens voigt looked like he was gonna eat it