Tour of California Stage 4

Wow, I am not a cyclist. But, I love this sport. This morning, walking around before the start, the athletes pedalling around, Landis, Hamilton, Gaimon, Hincapie, etc. so easily mingling around with the fans. It was cool. WAY different than the Tour de France where they isolate the athletes. Here, they were just mingling around on their bikes. All except Armstrong. Man...you gotta have some pitty for this guy. There were about 200 kids surrounding the Astana trailer just waiting for him to step out. This guy is bigger than a movie star. At the 60 mile mark of today's 116 mile stage I was waiting on the side of the road for the cyclists. (See the pic with the line of Team Astana and Team Garmin). Two people stepped in front of my camera to get shots of the 3 sprinters going for the sprint points, 4.5 minutes ahead of team Astana and the rest of the peleton. Both people stated, "wow, did you see lance!!". I turned to them and said, do you know what colors Lance has on? Do you know what team he is on? (All 3 sprinters were in black and white kits). They both said to me, no....but Lance was there right? Man that's sad. These people dont even take the time to get a program to see what team Lance is on so they dont look like fools chearing and taking pics of the sprinters thinking Lance is one of them. Only in California. Well, he's probably good for the sport though....people are out here in droves.





















Some Pics I took today at Tour of California, Stage 4: Merced to Clovis