Cancellara Wins The Amgen Tour of California Prologue
PALO ALTO, California, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) – Switzerland’s Fabian
Cancellara, riding for CSC, Sunday won the prologue of the 2008 Tour of
California, a 3.4km individual time trial on the streets of Palo Alto.
With a time of 3min 51.211sec, the world time-trial champion was more than
four seconds ahead of Briton Bradley Wiggins, with American Tyler Farrar more
than five seconds back.
Levi Leipheimer, winner of the prologue and the race title last year, was
fourth.
Leipheimer, who rode for Discovery Channel last season, is riding this year
for Astana, and he and his teammates hope to use the California race to shake
off the disappointment of being banned from this year’s Tour de France over
doping scandals.
Monday’s stage one will take the riders 156km from Santa Rosa to
Sacramento. The race concludes on February 24 in Pasadena in suburban Los
Angeles.

1. Fabian Cancellara (SUI/CSC) 3min 51.211sec, 2. Bradley Wiggins (GBR) 3:55.980, 3. Tyler Farrar (USA) 3:56.463, 4. Levi Leipheimer (USA) 3:57.525, 5. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) 3:58.891

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