Here are some other web reports I’ve found about the Tour of California: 

Stage 7 race and podium pics from Pez.
Stage 7 coverage from VeloNews
Richard Pestes of Pez Cycling News rides a small part of the Stage 6 route with Mark-Paul Gosselar.
The Lemond Triomphe Carbon of Dan Bowman of the Kelly Benefits Strategies team.
Levi Leipheimer’s time trial bike
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The third edition of the Tour of California drew to a close yesterday. Under less than standard California weather conditions, George Hincapie pulled in a stage win for Team High Road, while Levi Leipheimer of Astana stayed close enough to take the General Classification.
The attacks began at the very start of the race with Doug Ollerenshaw […]

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Mark Cavendish of Team High Road thought he had the win today, but officials apparently spotted him hanging on to a team car and was given a 20 second penalty. Because of the penalty, Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Saunier Duval-Scott) took the stage win, with Juan Jose Haedo (Team CSC) in second and World Champion […]

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Today’s stage was yet another rainy slog along the California coastline.
Dominique Rollin of the Toyota-United Team was part of a large breakaway of 11 riders that started just before the first intermediate sprint. Joining him were Bauke Mollema (Rabobank), Bryce Mead (Jelly Belly), Danilo Wyss and Jackson Stewart (BMC Racing Team), Edward […]

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The TOC has been getting a lot of coverage on the web. Here are some of the features that I’ve come across:
Stage Pre-Rides:

A pre-competition ride starting from Specialized Bike’s HQ�
Category 2 Trinity Grade from Stage 2
A ride up the Category 1 Sierra Road from Stage 3
The HC Mt. Hamilton Climb from Stage 3

2008 Bikes and Tech:

Time […]

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In the TOC’s first mountain stage, we saw defending TOC champion Levi Leipheimer (Astana) working with Robert Gesink (Rabobank) to take the overall lead away from Tyler Farrar. Farrar, incidentally, dropped out of the race early in the stage due to trouble with a stomach virus.
Today’s stage rolled out in the new starting city of […]

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In a rain-soaked day, Tom Boonen takes the stage win, while Tyler Farrar takes advantages of time bonuses to step into the leader’s jersey.
Most of the riders would probably have preferred to spend the day in their comfy buses rather than brave the rain and temperatures under 50 F. The first several kilometers of the […]

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Team CSC holds onto the lead as JJ Haedo takes his first stage of the 2008 Tour of California. This is his fifth stage win at the race, and his he has his victories in the inaugaral 2006 race to thank for getting him on Team CSC.
The day started with Jackson Stewart of BMC attacking […]

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Thanks to Michael Ball and Rock Racing, the prologue of the Tour of California did not start without a little bit of controversy.
Earlier in the week, there were rumblings that Ball donated a large some of money to be a title sponsor of the race as well as be the provider of clothing for the […]

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The Amgen Tour of California starts up on Saturday and marks the beginning of a busy 2008 US racing season.
The race will kick off in Palo Alto with Saturday’s prologue - a short and fast 2.1 mile time trial. There are seven stages this year and the race will complete in Pasadena.
The tour organizers have […]

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