Here's an image of George Hincapie by the Spare Cycles blog author Ken Conley, a cycling photographer based in California who made the trip to Missouri to shoot the race.
It's certainly great to see Hincapie in yellow for the second day at the Tour of Missouri, especially considering the hard-luck bumps his career occasionally takes. (Ken has more pix at kwc at flickr.com .)
On Thursday's 18-mile individual time trial around Branson, Hincapie finished in 6th place, but that was good enough to not only retain the lead but put a 1-minute-40 margin over second place William Fischkorn of Slipstream in the overall standings.
The winner on the day was Discovery Channel teammate Levi Leipheimer, who added Wednesday's win to ITT victories at the Tour of California, Tour de Georgia and Tour de France this year.
A lot of people are saying that this race is already a lock for Hincapie. He and Discovery just have to ride smart and control the race for three more stages until the finish in St. Louis. I know that hurts the drama, but it's a good story anyway.
Speaking of Hincapie, James at the Bike Greenville blog (he's also the Bicycle Design blog) e-mailed me to say Hincapie wrote a nice editorial in his hometown newspaper. Hincapie said he was proud of Greenville, South Carolina, for turning out to support the US Pro Cycling championships over Labor Day weekend and participating in the fund-raising rides.
Friday's Stage 4 of the Tour of Missouri travels 133 miles from Lebanon to Columbia.
Here are the Top 10 overall:
1. George Hincapie, Discovery
2. William Frischkorn (USA), Slipstream, 1:40 behind
3. David Canada (Spain), Saunier Duval, 2:22
4. Dominique Rollin (Canada), KodakGallery, 2:23
5. Michael Friedman (USA), Slipstream, 2:48
6. Frank Pipp (USA), Health Net, 2:57
7. Valeriy Kobzarenko (Ukraine), Navigators, 3:04
8. Andrew Randell (Canada), Symmetrics, 3:48
9. Stefan Parinussa (Germany),Sparkasse, 4:20
10. Matthew Rice (Australia), Jelly Belly, 6:21
More details at CyclingNews and VeloNews.
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