Well, there were no great surprises in the final stages of the Tour of California. Levi Leipheimer rode an awesome time-trial and was then very ably shepherded by his team to the overall victory today. Lance Armstrong finished in an incredible seventh place overall, and Mark Cavendish very deservedly won the sprinters competition.
The ToC organisers were blown away by the crowds, estimated at over two million, who came to watch the tour (that's warm bodies on the roadside, not the TV audience!). That's particularly impressive when you factor in the really awful weather for the first half of the week. The big increase in numebrs was partly ascribed to Lance Armstrong's return from retirement — it seems to have provided a much needed good news story in the face of all the drug scandals of recent years.
It promises to be a very good year in the professional cycling world.
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