The Tour of California rolled into town today - Sacramento was the finish of the first stage of the race. My friend John and I had what we thought was the perfect spot for watching and photographing the riders as they made a turn around mid-town. All was well until just before the riders arrived, when a couple of chaps with big red flags showed up and stood right in front of us waving the flags to point out the very obvious fact that their was a turn - of course there was a turn - there was a barrier and a crowd of people where else where they going to go.
Anyway the lads with flags thwarted my attempts to take any decent pictures.
Here are a couple of HTC folks - one of them couldn't be Mark Cavendish - the cheeky chap from the Isle of Man who won the sprint to take the stage? They all look the same to me.
Here is the peloton going round the corner at high speed - how do they manage to stay upright? Of course the answer to that is - they don't - poor old Tom Boonen and George Hincapie both had accidents shortly after this photo.
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