Category: 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m still at the top of Brasstown Bald, taking advantage of the WiFi network that the Dodge Tour de Georgia provides to the credentialed media. We’ve got a faster connection at the top of this wind-swept mountain than we did in Dahlonega. One of the things that we were warned…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Team Discovery Channel rider Tom Danielson put on a burst of speed in the last 1 km of the race to the summit of Brasstown Bald to win Stage 5. Levi Leipheimer of Team Gerolsteiner was second. Lance Armstrong finished strongly in third place, pointing defiantly down the hill, presumably…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Race radio just announced that the Maxxis Inflatable Tire that normally marks one kilometer to the finish has not been erected on Brasstown Bald today due to high winds. It’s also snowing intermittently here at the summit and at least part way down the mountain. I brought all of the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute 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 along the way to Brasstown Bald. It’s really difficult to…

Reading Time: 5 minutes Through a little luck, perseverance, and the help of a few friends from the Dodge Tour de Georgia media crew, I reached the summit of Brasstown Bald where it is lightly snowing at the present time. Here’s my story: 12:10pm, [ Left the parking lot in Gainesville, GA after the start…

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve posted and captioned my photos from Stage 4 and they are now available for your viewing pleasure in the 2005 Tour de Georgia Album in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. There are a number of photos of the stage start in Dalton and my visit with the race referees.…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Race Referees: I talked to Jim Patton, Kirk Leidy and their coworkers from the race referee crew before Stage 4 of the Tour de Georgia. See more TdG photos in in the Operation Gadget Photo Gallery. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Before the start of Stage 4 in Dalton, I met…

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is the second day of confused stage results in this year’s Dodge Tour de Georgia. Lots of outlets initially reported that Jose-Luis Rubiera finished second in the stage, but now many sites and publications are reporting that it was in fact Viatcheslav Ekimov. The other issue was that the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Team CSC rider Brian Vandbourg edged out Team Discovery Channel‘s Viacheslav Ekimov to win the mountainous fourth stage of the Dodge Tour de Georgia. Marco Pinotti and Jason McCartney reportedly came in next, followed by 20 to 22 other riders. That group included Lance Armstrong, Floyd Landis and most of the…