Amgen Tour of California
Our team four this key races is; Zabriskie, Vandevelde, Pate, Cozza, Farrar, Euser, Tuft, Donald.
Stage 1 ITT 4KM
Rogers 11th +8
Tuft 17th +10
Dekker 10th +8
Grabsch 8th +7
Leipheimer 9th +7
Contador 7th +7
Gusev 6th +6
Gerdemann 5th +5
Zabriskie 4th +5
Armstrong 3rd +4
Hincapie 2nd +2
Cancellare 1st 3´29
Vandevelde 14, +9
TT is something that i´m not good at and vandevelde lost some seconds not very much but it was a very short ITT. I Hope I can do well in the mountains and not lose to much time in nexy ITT!
Amgen Tour of California Stage 2 The profile to day looks like it going to be a massspring but some hills and small mountains make it little bit uncertain if the sprinters are fit when the sprints starts.
The break today is ;Guesdon,Stroetinga,Poulhies,Hatanaka,Ivanon,Euser,Nybö and after some km also Ljungqvist, Canada and Wilson got in that break thats a break with 10 riders.
After some hills a lot of the riders infront were tired and a group with Guesdon, Poulhies,Ivanon, Ljungqvist, Canada and wilson were created.
Then the break was caught , when the peleton took up a high pace a lot of the sprinters was left behind even Farrar, so before the sprint Zabriskie and Vandevelde had good positions.
But there were some sprinters left and one was Bennati who won this stage with a little margin infont of Van Avermaet and 3rd was Freire.
1 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 3h48'28
2 Greg Van Avermaet Silence - Lotto s.t.
3 Óscar Freire Rabobank s.t.
4 Alex Candelario Kelly Benefit Strategies s.t.
5 AnÃbal Borrajo Colavita / Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light s.t.
6 David Zabriskie Garmin - Slipstream s.t.
7 Mark Cavendish Team Columbia - High Road s.t.
8 Christian Vandevelde Garmin - Slipstream s.t.
9 Gert Steegmans Team Katusha s.t.
10 Nick Nuyens Rabobank s.t.
GC
1 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 3h51'50
2 Fabian Cancellara Team Saxo Bank + 7
3 George Hincapie Team Columbia - High Road + 9
4 Lance Armstrong Astana Cycling Team + 11
5 David Zabriskie Garmin - Slipstream + 12
Amgen Tour of California Stage 3 Sprinters stage today !
Todays break was Ivanov and Ljungqvist
After them Coppel was chasing all alone.
Next group who are chasing is Kessiakoff and 3 mores.
And peleton caught the break today as I thought,
Our positoons before the sprint was good with Vandelvelde quite good with Zabriskie on hiw wheel and Farrar behind him,
And before the sprint many favourties fall ! Cavendish fall, Breschel, Cancellara, Hincapie, Gesink, and more. They lost 1-2 mins on this stage.
no picture of the winner here is the results :
1 Óscar Freire Rabobank 4h30'10
2 Daniele Bennati Liquigas s.t.
3 Gert Steegmans Team Katusha s.t.
4 Bernhard Eisel Team Columbia - High Road s.t.
5 Greg Van Avermaet Silence - Lotto s.t.
6 Shawn Milne Team Type 1 s.t.
7 Kurt-Asle Arvesen Team Saxo Bank s.t.
8 Boris Shpilevski Fuji - Servetto s.t.
9 Matt Wilson Team Type 1 s.t.
10 Fabian Wegmann Team Milram s.t.
Overall :
1 Daniele Bennati Liquigas 8h21'48
2 Óscar Freire Rabobank + 10
3 Lance Armstrong Astana Cycling Team + 23
4 David Zabriskie Garmin - Slipstream + 24
