
Ryan Anderson (Kelly Benefit Strategies) takes over leadership of the
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Paul Mach (Bissell) was again active at the front of the race today.
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Chechu Rubiera (RadioShack) shows signs of his crash.
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Californian dreamin': Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) nets his team back-to-back
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Mark Renshaw (HTC-Columbia) leads Javier Megias Leal (Team Type 1).
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Big crowds were out on the course to catch a glimpse of Armstrong today.
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The peloton heads up the day's first KOM on Old Stage Rd.
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Mark Renshaw focuses on the job at hand in stage five.
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Steven Cozza leads Garmin-Transitions' efforts looking after race leader
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George Hincapie (BMC Racing) garnered some unwanted attention after allegations
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Points classification leader Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) rides between
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BMC teammates George Hincapie (centre left) and Marcus Burghardt lead
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Peter Sagan wheelies his way into the winners' circle on stage five.
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Paul Mach leads Rabobank's Grischa Niermann in the break.
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Tom Danielson (Garmin-Transitions) rides ahead of Janez Brajkovic (RadioShack).
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Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) is the new leader of the Amgen Tour of California
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The classification leaders (l-r): RYan Anderson, Peter Sagan, Michael
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Today's landscape was barren and not entirely inviting...
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The Garmin-Transitions outfit did its best to keep Dave Zabriskie in the
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Garmin-Transitions was near the front most of the day
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Cervelo's Dominique Rollin rides next to the RadioShack team car
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The Jelly Boys kept it together today as teammate Will Dickeson was up
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Lance Armstrong was pretty beat up after his fall early in the day
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Ben Day (Fly V Australia) is all smiles on the podium after taking the
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Pipelines and wells made for peculiar scenery on stage five.
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Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) en route to taking the overall lead.
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Peter Stetina grabs a bottle from the Garmin-Transitions car.
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Chris Horner (Radioshack) finished fourth.
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Spectacular weather greeted the field in Bakersfield.
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Fans await the race above Bakersfield, California's otherworldly oil pump
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Chris Baldwin (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) throttles it for the chase.
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Ben Day (Fy V Australia) took the day's Amgen Breakaway from Cancer most
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Mark Renshaw (HTC-Columbia) rises above the oil fields of Central California.
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Jens Voigt (Saxo Bank) pushes it on his second time up a challenging finishing
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HTC-Columbia's Tony Martin finished sixth on the stage.
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Garmin-Transitions' Dave Zabriskie, followed by Tom Danielson, attempted
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20-year old Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) passes a charging Dave Zabriskie
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South Africa's Robbie Hunter (Garmin-Transitions).
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Todd Bentley (l) and Joe Halbert staked out their spot in Bakersfield
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Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) celebrates his stage win in California.
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Mark Renshaw (HTC-Columbia) did what he could to make the break work today.
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The peloton was strung out as it put the hammer down in an effort to catch
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Quick Step's Nikolas Maes seemed impressed that this geezer could run
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Garmin-Transitions again did a good job of controlling the peloton.
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Michael Rogers (HTC-Columbia) had even more reason to smile after the
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Lance Armstrong (Radioshack) probably felt like he'd been in a bar fight
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As usual, crowds came out to send off the Amgen Tour of California.
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Young rider, young winner: Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) takes his white
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Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) shows off after winning the fifth stage in
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Australian Matt Wilson moved to Garmin-Transitions for 2010.
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Steven Cozza (Garmin-Transitions) with his biggest fans, mum and dad.
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A year ago 20-year-old Quebec City, Canada rider David Boily (SpiderTech-Planet
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Fans share their opinions in Visalia.
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Zach Bell (Kelly Benefit Strategies) won the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
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After getting hit by a car and a long rehab last year, Lucas Euser (SpiderTech-Planet
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Today Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) hopes to get the win he missed on
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Stuart O'Grady (Saxo Bank) enjoys the sunshine before riding into the
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Lance Armstrong (Radioshack) rides into an even bigger world of attention
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Fan encouragement from the moto.
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George Hincapie (BMC) and general classification leader Dave Zabriskie
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Visalia police monitor the huge, curious crowd at the Radioshack bus this
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Color guard at the race start in Visalia, an agricultural town and gateway
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