The world-class roster of teams and cyclists - considered to be the finest collection of talent to compete in a U.S. stage race - entered in the 2007 Amgen Tour of California, an internationally sanctioned professional cycling road race that will host 18 teams and 144 riders racing throughout California February 18-25, 2007, has been announced by race presenters AEG.
In its second year, the race has already received an upgraded rating from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the international governing body of cycling, to a 2. Hors Classe (2.HC), the highest rating a professional stage race outside of Europe can receive.
The race will bring the top cycling talent in the world to compete across 650 miles of California roadway from San Francisco to Long Beach. Attracting an unprecedented field of riders from 28 countries, cyclists hail from countries as far away as Trinidad and Tobago, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Cuba, South Africa, Belarus, Luxembourg and Kazakhstan.
The collection of riders, considered the strongest field of participants ever to race in the United States, will include Discovery Channel Pro Cycling, T-Mobile, Predictor-Lotto, HealthNet and Team CSC, which returns to defend the title as the overall classification winner of the 2006 Amgen Tour of California.
Source: ATOCNews@enews.amgentourofcalifornia.com
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