Tour of California Stage 7 (spoiler)

[Keith Oates]

Penultimate day and some big climbing in the first half of the race however there is still 60 Km after the top of the last hill before the finish so this will be another team work day with perhaps a climber showing the way and getting some bonuses, going up the hills. I love to see see hill (mountain) top finishes and it's something we dont'd seem to have in this race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Domestique]

I love to see see hill (mountain) top finishes and it's something we dont'd seem to have in this race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too

Maybe they will come in future years, at the moment though I get the impression it a case of 'Sell cycling to the American puplic' and city finish's attract more people.
The crowd was impressive yesterday imo.

 

[Dave5N]

Me too.

 

[iLB]

well that was good

o btw false flat? (aka hill)??

EDIT: and how does Levi keep getting the yellow jersey even though he seems to b doing **** all???

 

[Noodley]

well that was good

o btw false flat? (aka hill)??

EDIT: and how does Levi keep getting the yellow jersey even though he seems to b doing **** all???

Cos he's ahead on overall time. Astana controlled the peleton today and did not chase cos all the breakaway riders were not a threat to him - if someone close to him had been in the breakaway they would have chased them down.

 

[HLaB]

The Eurosports coverage couldn't have went down at a worse moment.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I agree with Keith. The commercial pressures seem to be (at least at the moment) overriding what would make the race so much better...

 

[Radius]

Good finish today, nice close sprint (but quite slow). Astana bossing the peloton as well. Hushovd seems to have been a slight let down since the early stages...

 

[roadiewill]

bloody eurosport

 

[Radius]

I watched it online. Great coverage, dodgy commentators but they do the job.

 

[Keith Oates]

The days final positions :

Results
1 Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R La Mondiale)
2 Hayden Roulston (Cervélo TestTeam)
3 Pieter Weening (Rabobank)
4 Markus Zberg (BMC Racing Team)
5 Martin Elmiger (AG2R La Mondiale)
6 Chris Baldwin (Rock Racing)
7 George Hincapie (Team Columbia - Highroad)
8 Fränk Schleck (Team Saxo Bank)

General classification after stage 7

1 Levi Leipheimer (Astana)
2 David Zabriskie (Garmin - Slipstream)
3 Michael Rogers (Team Columbia - Highroad)
4 Jens Voigt (Team Saxo Bank)
5 Thomas Lövkvist (Team Columbia - Highroad)

Some hard racing and Hincapie deserved to have got a better position after his hard work, but that's racing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Don't worry Keith, big George will get something out of the Spring Classics, I reckon.

 

[Keith Oates]

It would be nice to see FM, but he always seems to be the nearly man in the classics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!