Sir Bradley Wiggins of Britain won cycling's Tour of California which concluded today with a 76.1-mile circuit race beginning and ending in Thousand Oaks.
Spanish cyclist Eloy Teruel thought he had won the race -- but he was celebrating with one lap too early (see video).
Wiggins began the stage with a 30-second lead over Australian Rohan Dennis and finished 20th today as each of the top 57 cyclists were credited with the same time, two hours, 53 minutes, 50 seconds.
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Dennis finished 38th in the stage. American Lawson Craddock finished third overall, 1:48 behind Wiggins, after a 29th-place finish in the stage.
Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France champion and a four-time Olympic gold medalist, led the eight-stage, approximately 720-mile race that began last Sunday in Sacramento since the completion of Monday's Stage 2 individual time trial in Folsom.
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Mark Cavendish won today's stage. He also won the first stage.
The stage passed through Westlake Village and Agoura Hills. It included three laps of a 21-mile circuit, with cyclists making three 910-foot ascents up the "Rock Store" climb on Mulholland Drive between Malibu and Agoura Hills, followed by three 4.6-mile circuits around Westlake Lake.
--City News Service
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