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Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Big Guns Commit to the 2010 Tour of California
The 2010 Amgen Tour of California will venture high up into the Sierra Nevada, dispense with the traditional prologue, include a time trial in Los Angeles and feature the first mountaintop finish in the race’s history at Big Bear.
The biggest change for the eight-day event is the move from February to May 16-23, putting it up against the Giro d’Italia. Still, race organizers expect a field of comparable strength to 2009, when world champions and former winners of the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix lined up alongside America’s best riders.
In 2010, confirmed riders include seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who had been wrestling with the decision of whether to ride in California or at the Giro next May. He will be joined by RadioShack teammate and three-time winner Levi Leipheimer, national road champion George Hincapie and his new BMC Team and national time trial champion Dave Zabriskie of Garmin-Slipstream.
Armstrong hopes to lead again in 2010
The race will begin in Nevada City and head south, visiting Sacramento, Davis, Santa Rosa, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Jose, Modesto, Visalia, Bakersfield, Pasadena, Big Bear, Los Angeles and Thousand Oaks.
Missing from previous ToC editions are a prologue, the Solvang time trial and a stage in the San Diego area.
Posted at 12:09pm on October 24, 2009 by Mark Weidel
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