Tour of Utah

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Here are a few photos from today's Tour of Utah Prologue... It was a bit hectic, as I did not plan to go....but got a wild hair and....well....

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Ian Burnett dumped around turn one, but picked up a new bike and kept riding.

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Here comes big George Hincapie

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....and Christian VandeVelde

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Benjamin King coming out of the chute....




Thomas Rabou starting....




Janez Brajkovič getting ready....




Levi Leipheimer 45ish minutes before he starts...I think he had been down chatting with Big George, who was cooling down as you can see in the following photo...




George cooling down...

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The HTC-Highroad guys discussing what team they will be riding for next year....




Aerial shots





Couple shots of the jump and bobsled track...

[hike2kolob]

Cool pics.

One of my summer traditions has been to record the Tour de France and watch nightly (I usually FF to the attacks and sprint finishes). Sometimes I just like to take a summer tour of France on TV.

It's cool to see many of the names I recognize. I went up to the Snowbird finish one year and the last stage goes near my house here in Sandy. It's fun to get the cowbells out.

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Think I am going to try to do Snowbird this year as well, hike2kolob.

Results -

http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tou...ologue/results

[live2ride]

sweet I would lodve to catch a nice mountain finish, I need to check the schedule!

[accadacca]

Sweet! Keep the pix coming. I should have some pictures of stage 2 as it is starting at my place of employment.

Stages: http://www.tourofutah.com/race/stages

[tallsteve]

I'm gonna park myself at the top of the Alpine Loop on Sunday. I'm hoping to get some good photos. Leipheimer and Hincapie will be my primary targets.

[tallsteve]

Live video feed right now. Click on Tour Tracker at http://www.tourofutah.com.

[Iceaxe]

You could paint numbers on turtles and I'd watch them race.

[dmMatrix]

You could paint numbers on turtles and I'd watch them race.

I prefer snail races myself

[accadacca]

A few from the Stage 2 start.

[Scott Card]

I just gave myself an hour off at about 2:00 pm today Looks like the race will go right past my office!!!! I will try and get a camera to post some photos for ya'lls. I am kinda excited. I guess I am a little like Ice in that since they have numbers and they are racing, I am watching. I am guessing they will be sprinting to the finish line since my building is about 1.7 miles from the finish.

[live2ride]

man sounds like fun! Wish it went by my work..

[live2ride]

I'm gonna park myself at the top of the Alpine Loop on Sunday. I'm hoping to get some good photos. Leipheimer and Hincapie will be my primary targets.

What time do you have to be there to get a good spot, I would love to see some good climbs

[Scott Card]

Here are a couple of shots from the 3Km mark (give or take 20 feet. )


Number 11, I think that was his number, was the leader at the 3 km mark. Not sure if he won but he did have a couple seconds lead.

It was fun to see. I will say it came and went in a hurry. Also, my partners, staff and I were amused and annoyed at all the cars that were giving the cop a hard time for blocking the street. Good grief. I remember one particularly large set of people getting after the cop. Made me wonder just how entitled and self endulgent they were. But then I remembered to not judge and figured they just had a heart condition.

[trackrunner]

I get to ride in a team car for the final stage PC to Snowbird. Get to do the alpine loop driving between 50 to 70 MPH