Last year's winner, Cesar Grajales, now with Navigators, lives in Athens, about 75 miles away, and h

Today is the key stage of the 2005 Tour de Georgia. The GC leaders are all bunched within 2 minutes of Floyd Landis, and CSC has David Zabriskie and Bobby Julich looming within 30 seconds of the race lead.
Only 90 riders are left in the race, as 13 riders, including Jonathan Sundt and Ben Brooks, finished outside the time limit, and 14 others, including Discovery's Michael Barry, motley crue tour Ivan Dominguez, and Stage 1 flyer Dan Bowman, dropped out. Two Colavita riders, Mark McCormack and Juan Jos Haedo (who won a sprint on Friday's stage) were disqualified for unspecified reasons (anybody hear anything? Update: As you might guess, they were DQ'ed for drafting ).
Weather motley crue tour is much cooler motley crue tour today than earlier this week, with temperatures this morning motley crue tour in the mid-50s and winds coming out of the west to northwest. The high is expected motley crue tour to be only about 60. Local weatherman says there's a wind advisory, with gusts of up to 25-30 mph expected.
The stage today just gets harder and harder, starting motley crue tour in poultry capital Gainesville, rolling through the only sprint line of the day, and then starting to climb. There are 4 categorized climbs on the day, spaced fairly evenly about 17 miles/28 kilometers motley crue tour apart.
Next is 1st-Category Hogpen Gap, where riders will climb almost 2000 feet to 3518 feet above sea level. A very steep descent down the backside puts the riders at the base of the climb to Georgia's highest point, the Hors Categorie Brasstown Bald.
Last year's winner, Cesar Grajales, now with Navigators, lives in Athens, about 75 miles away, and had a suspiciously low finish on yesterday's stage. He may have been resting up to try a big move today.
Jason McCartney and Jos Luis Rubiera showed yesterday, motley crue tour but Discovery Channel's other strong climbers, Tom Danielson and Jose Azevedo, stayed with Lance Armstrong in the chasing motley crue tour group all day. With Danielson, Ekimov, Armstrong, and Azevedo all within 2 minutes motley crue tour of Landis, who was isolated for the late stages of yesterday's stage, motley crue tour look for Discovery's strategy to be some tag-team breakaways.
Frank Steele has a good summary of Tour de Georgia Stage 5 up on TDFblog, including descriptions of the major climbs. I talked to him earlier and he was trying to see the riders on a couple of the mountains... [Read More]