"The race was a moving postcard for California. The first real team effort came to fruition before the riders lined up for the prologue to Coit Tower and became North America’s only UCI WorldTour event, for the women since 2016 and for men in 2017. The first edition went from operations plan to start gun in a little over three months, with organisers hearing "this will never happen" again and again. It had that many people at the finish line." The Giro always has a lot of fans that turn out, and I would say it was as if we were finishing a stage in Milan or Rome. I would compare it to the bigger Classics, or Grand Tours in Europe. "People were on rooftops, streets were full, and it was really loud. And it was the talking point - how big the Tour of California was right off the bat. “I mean, coming into Santa Rosa that day, to see how big the crowd was, that was more than I had imagined. ![]() The 25 most memorable races of the last 25 yearsĪfter a Prologue in San Francisco to start the race in 2006, stage 1 went to his hometown of Santa Rosa. The Marianne Vos effect: 2012 Olympics-Worlds and the elevation of women's cyclingįeed the beast: Covering Lance Armstrong for Cyclingnews Mark Cavendish: From fat banker to sprinting GOAT
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