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| Photo by Ken Conley |
High Road closed out an extremely successful Tour de Georgia on Sunday with a 2nd stage win for their sprint specialist Greg Henderson, who nailed down the sprinter's jersey, and the overall victory for Belorussia's Kanstantsin Sivtsov.
High Road ran a tempo clinic, letting a group of 14 hold a minute or so all the way to the final lap, where Rock Racing came to the front to close down the breakaway, which included Tom Danielson, Justin England, Aaron Olson, and Sebastian Lang, among others. Danelson, England, and Cameron Evans attempted to hold off the chase, but it all came together in the last mile.
Rock, riding in special orange jerseys just for the stage, hoped to set up Freddie Rodriguez, who won the Tour de Georgia's first Atlanta finish. But on the line, it was Henderson who won the uphill sprint to the line ahead of CSC's Juan José Haedo and Symmetrics Andrew Pinfold, with Rodriguez in 4th.
In the overall categories, Sivtsov closes out the victory in his first US race, Trent Lowe of Slipstream, 2nd overall, took the young rider's jersey (which he also won in 2005), Jason McCartney took the king of the mountains jersey through his long Stage 6 breakaway, and Henderson took the overall sprinter's jersey. Astana, which didn't have much else to show for its week, took the overall team competition.
Here's my photoset -- there will probably be a few additions and a few deletions.
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