ToC Final

Landis Wins!

As the ToC drew to a close, the opportunities to overtake the race lead became fewer and fewer. As a result, Floyd Landis won the innaugural Amgen tour of California.

The only change on sunday's stage was the ownership of the Clif Bar Green Jersey. By winning back to back bunch sprints on Saturday and Sunday, Olaf Pollack (T-Mobile) earned enough points to take the final green jersey from George Hincapie.

All in all, the ToC had been vastly successful and looks to increase in size, sponsorship and field size for next years edition. I really liked having the biggest stage race in America over here in the east (Tour of Georgia), but I have to admit...the ToC seems to have been even bigger, ToG has it's work cut out for them come April.

War wounds...

Tom Peterson (TIAA-CREF) was involved in the big pile up in the opening lap of sundays race, but in order for him to claim the Best Young Riders jersey and the $5000 check that went with it, he had to finish the stage. At only 19 years old, Tom showed a lot of heart, fight and determination to finish with the bunch. Keep an eye out for this kid in the future...Congratulations Tom.

In the same crash, Phil Zajicek also went down and was unable to continue. I've been following Phil's blog and keeping track of his results in the race. It sucks to see him have to abandon when he was soo close to finishing with a very respectful 15th on GC. We hope Phil is feeling better soon.

Holy ripped-ness Batman!
Check out this picture of my legs...not really, I think these monsters belong to Olaf Pollack from the T-Mobile team.

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