Thursday 25 August 2011

By George! Big win in Colorado

It's only three days old, but this USA Pro Cycling Championship has been full of surprises.

The latest is George Hincapie's (left) sprint finish victory -- at 8,000 feet elevation -- to end Stage 2 in Aspen on Wednesday.

Although he beat Tejay Van Garderen to the line -- a cyclist 15 years his junior, the HTC Highroad cyclist, above right, can find solace in taking the overall leader's yellow jersey.

RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer, who took the yellow jersey Tuesday on an uncharacteristic uphill attack at the finish in Crested Butte, dropped to fourth place overall. Hincapie raised himself to 2nd overall, followed by Tom Danielson (Garmin Cervelo) ...

Source: http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2011/8/24/4885672.html

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