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Tour of California

The official route for the inaugural Tour of California has been announced. The eight-day course will run from Santa Rosa all the way to Redondo Beach, with plenty of opportunity for Bay Area residents to watch some stages (Santa Rosa, Sausalito, San Jose, Monterey). They got some real big teams to sign up for this: Discovery, Gerolsteiner, Davitamon-Lotto, Phonak, Saunier Duval Prodir, T-Mobile, Health Net, and Navigators. I'm hoping that we'll at least see Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) show up and perhaps Floyd Landis (Phonak) and Tom Danielson (Discovery). It's scheduled for early in the race calendar, February 19-26, so it might be a good warmup for ProTour riders.