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Tour of California Quotes

"The race and the organization will be judged by how it goes. As far as I can tell it went perfect."


"It's been a great experience for us to be part of the premiere edition of this race – a race that has the potential to become a very important one. It has especially been a pleasure to see the fantastic support from the sponsors and the fans all through the race. I've also been very impressed with the race organization – they have certainly done a good job on all accounts."

"I would like to extend this race for 12 weeks."

"I think it's a perfect placement [on the UCI Calendar]. If you moved it anywhere else, you'd have a bigger conflict with some of the bigger European races. It's also very beneficial for American cycling because we can start our season a little bit earlier and what the carry over will be is that you'll have a lot of European teams probably coming over to beautiful California for training camps […] With the turnout that we've had and the weather that we've had and all of the excitement that the Tour of California has generated, you can't even think about changing the date. Everything has been perfect."

"The crowds were amazing. At the finish here with so many (people) it just says so much for cycling here in the U.S. Everybody is asking what's going to happen to cycling now that Lance has stopped. This is just a great example of the fact that there's still so much more that we can do and we have so many talented American cyclists. Just look at the GC here at this race. It's all Americans and as you saw in the Tour de France last year I think there were four or five Americans in the top 15. We're going to miss Lance, but we still have a huge talent pool and there's a lot of exciting stuff to come.

It's very high up on the list. I think it was a great event. It's a good indication that all of the foreign riders were happy with the event. It couldn't have gone any better."


"This race beats by far all those earlier races - better roads, definitely the weather, the way this race is built. Here we had good balance, not superhard, not easy. The participation is just amazing. This is the strongest field so far this year."

"I believe it will be a major thing. The organization here behind the race is perfect and the leadership is quite good. I'm surprised at the good job they've done so far."

"I love the hospitality here."

"To keep up with cycling, I had to go to the library to get copies of French magazines. And now this race, with some of the finest riders in the world, rolls into cities and towns here, and young people can see their heroes firsthand. This will build a new generation of riders."

"We hope the race comes back next year," one mother said, "because then we'll put together a book of songs to sing with cowbells." That might be one of the few ways to improve this race."

"From the moment I heard about the Amgen Tour of California, I knew it would be of the highest quality. I can say now that it was even better than expected."

"It looks to be a good race. Not just good teams here, but the teams have brought good riders as well, and they're all motivated to do very well. From the UCI's point of view, it's good to see this in its first year. I have no doubt that the potential is here to grow and develop this race into a big, big spectacle in both the state of California and the United States."