| 03/07/2006 | Redondo Beach will host what is expected to be the largest cycling event in U.S. history this Sunday, just three weeks after hosting the Super Bowl Sunday 10K, one of the largest runs in the country.
The current U.S. title holder for the largest cycling event is the four-year-old Tour de Georgia. Last April, an estimated 800,000 thousand fans lined the streets along the 655 mile course that begins in Augusta and wanders through the southern state’s northern cities.
The Amgen Tour of California, which began Sunday in San Francisco, is expected to draw over one million fans, not including nightly ESPN2 viewers, by the time the winner crosses the finish line Sunday afternoon on Harbor Dr. in Redondo's King Harbor. The tour is on track to becoming the largest cycling event held in America and the most attended spectator sporting event in California history.
An estimated 130,000 fans lined the route of the race’s first stage on Monday, from Sausalito to Santa Rosa, where Argentenian sprinter Juan Jose Haedo of the Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team finished first. His time was not fast enough, though, to unseat Santa Rosa resident Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) as the overall leader, who had won the time trials in the Prologue the previous day. easyreader.hermosawave.net/news2002/storypage.asp?StoryID=20028515&IssuePath=news2006/0223/
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