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2006 Tour of California, Stage 1

Tour of California, USA

Stage 1, Sausalito - Santa Rosa, 129.1K

20 February

Haedo Hammers Big Sprinters

Juan José Haedo Scores Big, photo: Tour of California

Juan José Haedo (Toyota-United Pro) foiled the big boys to win stage 1 of the Giro di Cali. Phonak and Davitamon-Lotto were doing the muscle-work on the final finishing circuits to ensure a sprint win for Robert Hunter or Fred Rodriguez but it was the 25 year-old Argentinean who took glory. Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) easily kept the leader's golden jersey and proudly finished the stage in his hometown of Santa Rosa.

Gerolsteiner Lead On Coast, photo: Beth Seliga

Today's stage from Sausalito to Santa Rosa was an undulating affair of 129K. LL was keen to keep his golden threads on the stage that finished in his hometown of Santa Rosa. There were not too many difficulties facing his bubbly water team, tomorrow and the Wednesday's TT will likely be more decisive.

Jackson Stewart (Kodakgallery.com-Sierra Nevada) and Jean-Marc Marino (Crédit Agricole) formed the day's main escape. The duo worked their way off the front and with 76K to go they had 1'20" on the peloton. They were able to build their gap to a little over three minutes but always under the watchful eyes of LL's team.

What Devil? The Specialized Angel!, photo: Beth Seliga

The German Gerolsteiner squadra, with help from Swiss Phonak, nailed the duo on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, 23K to go. It was now gruppo compatto and the sprint guns started to jostle for position.

Up ahead were three circuits of 5K on a tight and technical parcours. Phonak and Davitamon-Lotto were pumping up the rhythm and lining out the peloton for Hunter and Rodriguez. But ho ho ho, Argentinean sprint-force (yes, we can call him a 'sprint-force' now) Haedo spoiled the ProTour team party, leaving in his wake Tour de France stage winner O'Grady and German Olaf Pollack.

Results: 3:14'13", 39.88K/hr 1 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro 2 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile 3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 4 Charles Bradley Huff (USA) TIAA-CREF 5 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 6 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Colavita 7 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 8 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak 9 Antonio Cruz (USA) Toyota-United Pro 10 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 11 Mike Sayers (USA) Health Net-Maxxis 12 Alex Candelario (USA) Jelly Belly 13 Charles Dionne (Can) Prodir-Saunier Duval 14 Mark McCormack (USA) Colavita 15 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel 16 Kyle Wamsley (USA) Colavita 17 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak 18 Scott Davis (Aus) T-Mobile 19 André Greipel (Ger) T-Mobile 20 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Health Net-Maxxis 21 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators 22 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 23 Matthew Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 24 Chris Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 25 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel 26 Danny Pate (USA) TIAA-CREF 27 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel 28 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 29 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 30 Bas Giling (Ned) T-Mobile 31 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 32 Michael Friedman (USA) TIAA-CREF 33 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Kodakgallery.Com-Sierra 34 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner 35 Sébastien Portal (Fra) 36 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 37 Fausto Esparza (Mex) KB Home Mexican National 38 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 39 André Korff (Ger) T-Mobile 40 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC ...

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GC:
1 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 3:19'06"
2 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC 0.05
3 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 0.06
4 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak
5 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 0.09
6 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC 0.10
7 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel
8 Hayden Roulston (NZl) Health Net-Maxxis 0.11
9 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel
10 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel
11 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 0.12
12 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto
13 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC
14 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 0.14
15 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Toyota-United Pro
16 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto
17 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) Kodakgallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 0.15
18 Gord Fraser (Can) Health Net-Maxxis 0.16
19 René Haselbacher (Aut) Gerolsteiner 0.17
20 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole
21 Riccardo Riccò (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval
22 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC
23 Miguel Angel Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak
24 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Toyota-United Pro
25 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Health Net-Maxxis
26 Michael Barry (Can) Discovery Channel 0.18
27 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC
28 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators 0.19
29 Frank Hoj (Den) Gerolsteiner 0.20
30 David Kopp (Ger) Gerolsteiner
31 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval
32 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 0.21
33 Chris Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto
34 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel
35 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.22
36 Koldo Gil (Spa) Prodir-Saunier Duval
37 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Crédit Agricole
38 Josep Jufré (Spa) Davitamon-Lotto
39 Danny Pate (USA) TIAA-CREF
40 Saul Raisin (USA) Crédit Agricole 0.23
41 Zachary Grabowski (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home
42 Mads Kaggestad (Nor) Crédit Agricole
43 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel
44 Mark Walters (Can) Navigators 0.24
45 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home
46 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net-Maxxis
47 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile 0.25
48 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak
49 Mark McCormack (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home
50 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval
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