Europeans take charge in Amgen Tour

Cyclists Bradley Wiggins (UK), Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland), and Tyler Farrar (USA)
won 2nd, 1st, and 3rd respectively in the time trial prologue of the third annual Amgen Tour of California, held Sunday in Palo Alto.
Photos by Matthew Cohen

By Matthew Cohen, special to Fog City Journal

February 18, 2008

The third annual Amgen Tour of California traded the heartbreaking hills of San Francisco for the friendlier flats of Palo Alto in its time trial prologue Sunday.

Before thousands of enthusiastic and engaged fans, Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara showed off the form that twice earned him the world time trial title by holding off Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins and American Tyler Farrar.

Team CSC's Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland
showed why he's the two-time world time trial champ,
beating 131 other riders to take the time trial prologue.

The UK's Bradley Wiggins of Team High Road cruised into second place,
four seconds behind Cancellara.

Santa Rosa's Levi Leipheimer, last year's winner, settled for fourth.

The tour continues Monday at 11 a.m with a 97-mile Stage One trial from Sausalito to Santa Rosa. The 650-mile race ends Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.

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