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Course details for the 2010 Tour of California are expected to start trickling out today.

Lance Armstrong just announced via his Twitter account that he was going to ride the 2010 Tour of California.

In today’s cycling news, Katie Compton leads the UCI ‘cross rankings, Marianne Vos makes her season debut, dopes continue to dope, transfers and more.

The Tour of California will move from its traditional mid-February date to its requested slot in May for 2010. It will also be given ProTour status in 2011.

Branden Hays’ picture of the peloton passing through the California countryside is the winner of our Amgen Tour of California photo contest.
We liked that it offered a different perspective than the other race pictures, and that even with the rain, showed off the pastoral countryside that the race was passing through.
You can view Branden’s entire gallery from the race here.
Branden will be receiving a prize package with products from some of the companies that have supported us in the past.
The rest of the contest entries can be viewed here.

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De Ketele and Risi win the “Lotto” in Hasselt, Iljo Keisse ready to come back, two Quickstep riders on the bench, Julien Absalon tries the road, Belgian classics season starts and more…

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Chris Jones is a second-year professional for Team Type 1 who lives in Sacramento, Calif. Throughout the Amgen Tour of California, he shared his thoughts and behind-the-scenes observations exclusively with Bike World News.

It’s over.
I finished the biggest race that I’ve ever done. Against the most stacked field in the history of North American cycling (or at least that’s how it was billed). My race wasn’t necessary full of the results that I wanted. But I’m proud that I battled through and finished.
It was a really tough week for my team. …

The organizers of the Amgen Tour of California saved the most difficult day for last. While the stage, at 96.8 miles, was not all that long for these guys, it included four California Travel & Tourism King of the Mountains climbs, none more fearsome than Palomar Mountain, a beyond categorization climb that peaked at 5123 feet, the highest summit ever reached in the Tour.
With two-time defending champion Levi Leipheimer (Astana) in the leader’s jersey, an abundance of attacks were expected to try and claim the yellow jersey. An early break …

The  Lowdown:
Today’s stage of the Amgen Tour of California was characterized by attacks from the start of the race. Today’s course traveled 88.9 miles from Santa Clarita to Pasadena. As soon as the flag dropped at the end of the 3.5 mi. neutral section, the break attempts began. Eventually a group of ten riders – Frank Schleck (SAX), Christian Vande Velde (GRM), George Hincapie (THR), Hayden Roulston (CTT), Pieter Weening (RAB),  Markus Zberg (BMC), Andy Engles (QST), Chris Baldwin (RRC) and a pair from AG2R, Martin Elmiger and Rinaldo Nocentini …

Chris Jones is a second-year professional for Team Type 1 who lives in Sacramento, Calif. While he prepares for the final stage of the Amgen Tour of California, his wife, Cassie, shares her perspective on the race.
My name is Cassie Jones and I’m Chris’s wife. I am not a bike rider, but I am a bike ride supporter and in my off time I work as a pediatric nurse practitioner in Roseville, Calif.
Chris and I have been together for seven years and he started cycling after we started dating. So …