Stage 1 of the Ford Tour de Georgia is in the books. I kept going back to cyclingnews.com's live coverage to read the latest of the stage. The actual time line of the race gets a bit skewed while reading a live update 15 minutes at a time. It seemed to me that the first hour or two was attack, attack, attack every 15 seconds, when in actuality I'm sure some of the attacks lasted longer than that.An eventual break of four was let go and built quite a gap. Of the four, Aaron Olson (Saunier-Duval) was the strong man and was eventually rewarded by earning the "Most aggressive rider" jersey at the end of the stage.
Team CSC added yet another win to their growing list of palmares for the season. Lars Michaelson won the stage ahead of Fast Freddy Rodriguez (Davitimon-Lotto) and Caleb Manion (Jelly Belly) who finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
1 Lars Michaelsen (Den) Team CSC
2 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto
3 Caleb Manion (Aus) Jelly Belly
4 Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis
5 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance
6 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada
7 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro
8 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto
9 Peter Mazur (Pol) Prodir-Saunier Duval
10 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance
It was originally reported on cyclingnews that the 3rd place Jelly Belly rider was Brice Jones. That turned out to be false, but Brice has a blog where he's reporting on the TdG. Brice Jones also was recently in Jacksonville for the pro classic race and won sunday's road race. He reports on that win in his blog as well...check it out.
Big Day in Pro-cycling
In addition to the second stage of the TdG, the Belgian classic, Fleche Wallonne is taking place right now. Only one American is starting the race, Patrick McCarty of the Swiss Phonak team. Look for CSC, Quick-Step, Rabobank, and maybe Liquigas to finish on the podium.
3 comments:
I heard that Ivan Domingeuz (sp?) crashed on the last corner!
Geoff L.
Geoff, I read that Ivan did indeed go down in the last corner. Frankie Andreau probably wasn't too happy about that (I bet Ivan wasn't too happy either!).
The report I read gave this explanation:
...riders tried to take advantage of the extra-wide turn to push their cornering -- resulting in riders not being able to hold their lines. One of the casualties was Toyota-United's Ivan Dominguez along with a handful of other riders -- but all were ok in the end.
I wonder if United Pro will leave the sprinting duties solely up to J.J. Haedo now...and just have Ivan work as a lead out man???
An interview with Ivan Dominguez himself revealed the he actually rolled his tubular off the rim in the corner yesterday...and that's what led to his crash.
He also said that he plans on working for J.J. in stage 2 (unless J.J. doesn't feel good, then they'll switch)
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