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A determined ride by UAE Team Emirates’ 20-year-old Tadej Pogacar’s (SLO) today could make him the youngest ever Amgen Tour of California champion when the race concludes in Pasadena tomorrow. First-timers to this race, Pogacar and 21-year-old Sergio Higuita battled to the steep summit finish atop Southern California’s Mt. Baldy, with the EF Education First Pro Cycling Columbian rider slipping into second place for the stage after a wide turn to the finish gave the younger rider clearance to the line.

Day One of the 17th annual Amgen Tour of California got underway in Sacramento Sunday with 132 riders on 19 teams representing 33 countries covering the 88.9-mile ride. In the group are three World Champions, Olympians, Tour de France stage winners and six current National Road Race Champions from around the world.

Egan Bernal, Team Sky’s 21-year-old Colombian rider, defended his lead from Thursday's race in Lake Tahoe to claim the 2018 Amgen Tour of California championship by the second largest margin in race history, +1.25” ahead of BMC Racing Team’s U.S. rider Tejay van Garderen. Team EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale’s Daniel Martinez (COL) rounds out third place overall.

The Amgen Tour of California Men's Stage 5 wrapped up on Thursday with some changes on the leader board.

Quick-Step Floors’ Fernando Gaviria (COL) claimed his second win at the 2018 Amgen Tour of California, his sixth of the season. Gaviria further cements his comeback from a hand injury earlier this year, with the stage podium result duplicating Sunday’s Stage 1.

Stage 5 Podium

1. Fernando Gaviria (COL), Quick-Step Floors (BEL) 4h04’34”
2. Caleb Ewan (AUS), Mitchelton-SCOTT (AUS) +00”
3. Peter Sagan (SVK), BORA-hansgrohe (GER) +00”

Jersey Winners after Stage 5:

Closing out day three at the 2018 Amgen Tour of California, and rebounding one year later at the race where his team pulled him after suffering a concussion and broken collarbone, Trek-Segafredo’s Toms Skujins (LAT) made a late race move that paid off, along with Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team’s Sean Bennett (El Cerrito, Calif.) – one of the youngest in the race at 22 – together creating a gap that held all the way through the Laguna Seca Recreation Area’s speedway finish line.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CALIF. - Kellogg's has announced that local snowboarder Jamie Anderson will be featured on Gold Medal Edition boxes of Special K® Red Berries following her Gold Medal win at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.

Boxes are available in limited quantities for a short time only on KelloggsFamilyRewards.com.

I am so stoked to be on a Gold Medal Edition Special K Red Berries box," said Anderson. "Growing up, you dream about being featured on a cereal box and to see it actually happen is unreal."

Two South Lake Tahoe athletes are headed to the finals in their respective sports during the final week of the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.

It was the debut of snowboard big air at the Olympics today, with 12 women advancing to the finals, including South Lake Tahoe's Jamie Anderson who landed cab double cork 900s in her second run.

Anderson won gold earlier in the Olympics during the slopestyle event, her second consecutive gold in the event.

Top endurance athletes in the obstacle racing world demonstrated their skill and tenacity at one of the world’s most demanding racing destinations in this weekend’s 2017 Reebok Spartan Race World Championship at Squaw Valley. For a third straight year, a field of elite athletes and more than 15,000 competitors and spectators converged in Olympic Valley to take part in the pinnacle event of the obstacle racing season.

Katie Hall, the cyclist who won Amgen Stage 2 in South Lake Tahoe. retained the leader jersey after Stage 3 on Saturday which took racers 73.3 miles from Elk Grove to Sacramento. Hall, who races for UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, placed 17 in Stage 3.

The winner was American Coryn Rivera who races for Team Sunweb from the Netherlands.

Stage 3 Podium
1. Coryn Rivera (USA), Team Sunweb (NED)
2. Arlenis Sierra (CUB), Astana Women’s Team (KAZ)
3. Giorgia Bronzini (ITA), Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling (GBR)

Stage 3 Jersey Winners (no change)

On Thursday and Friday, May 11 and 12, over 120 of the world's elite cyclists will descend upon Lake Tahoe for Amgen Breakaway from Heart DiseaseTM Women’s Race empowered with SRAM. The race presenter AEG, the world’s leading sports and live entertainment company, created routes that will challenge these top female cyclists. They will vie for the coveted jersey during the four-day race. After Lake Tahoe they head to Elk Grove on May 13, and the finale in Sacramento on MMay 14.

After 782 miles and eight days of racing, 23 year-old Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) of Etixx – Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team clinched the 2016 Amgen Tour of California championship, becoming the youngest rider to hold that title in the race’s 11 years. U.S. National Road Race Champion Megan Guarnier (Glens Falls, New York) of Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team also celebrated victory in Sacramento as the four-day Amgen Breakaway from Heart Disease™ Women’s Race Empowered with SRAM which concluded along with the men’s event.

Stage 5 of the Amgen Tour of California is in the books. 24-year-old Toms Skujins from Latvia burst across the finish line at Heavenly Mountain Resort at the last second Thursday, edging out Adam De Vos of Canada and Xabier Zandio of Spain to take the win.

The day began as riders left Lodi at 50 feet above sea level, and crossed the finish line 130 miles later in South Lake Tahoe at 6,650 feet.

Thirty-six professional cycle teams will be participating in the 2016 Amgen Tour of California which passes through South Lake Tahoe on May 19, 2016.

The teams that will participate have been announced.

The 18 professional men’s teams confirmed for the 2016 Amgen Tour of California include:

UCI WorldTour (10):
· BMC Racing Team (USA)
· Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (USA)
· Etixx – Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team (BEL)
· Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka (RSA)
· Team Giant – Alpecin (GER)
· Team KATUSHA (RUS)

People lined the 25-mile Amgen race course from Heavenly to Meyers on Saturday, all waiting to catch a glimpse of the top women cyclists as they quickly passed by.

There were great spectating opportunities, and many locals and visitors took advantage of them, from Ski Run Blvd, along Pioneer Trail to South Upper Truckee.

The course was much different that Friday's trip around the lake, but still a tough one with plenty of climbs, downhills and turns.

After two trips around the course, Canadian Leah Kirchmann emerged the victor, just edging out American Lauren Komanski.

Jamie Anderson and Maddie Bowman are asked this question in this USA team interview:

Which skier considers his skills on the snow the best gift he’s ever been given? How about the snowboarder who said her favorite was the gift of life? Find out what Team USA skiers and snowboarders remember as their favorite gift of all time. Happy gift-giving!

Maddie Bowman of South Lake Tahoe, 2014 Olympic halfpipe skiing gold medalist: Onesie Cookie Monster pajamas from my best friend a couple years ago.