TOUR OF CALIFORNIA STAGE 2: BOONEN WINS IN THE RAIN

Tom Boonen Tour of California 2008 stage 2

Tom Boonen (Quick Step) won the rain-soaked third stage of the Tour of California on Tuesday but he had to share the spotlight with Mario Cipollini (Rock Racing) after the ?old? Lion King finished an amazing third in the sprint.

Germany?s Heinrich Haussler (Gerolsteiner) was second and Britain?s Mark Cavendish (High Road) was fourth.

Tom Boonen won the final sprint on stage two, Britain's Mark Cavendish was fourth. Photos: ISPA

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TOUR OF CALIFORNIA STAGE TWO RESULTS

1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step 186km in 5-09-35

2 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner

3 Mario Cipollini (Ita) Rock Racing

4 Mark Cavendish (GBr) High Road

5 Juan Jose Haedo (Arg) CSC

6 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle

7 Dominique Rollin (Can) Toyota-United

8 Danilo Wyss (Swi) BMC Racing Team

9 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) High Road

10 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank all same time.

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TOUR OF CALIFORNIA: OVERALL AFTER STAGE 1

1 Tyler Farrar (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle 9-16-54

2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) CSC at 1sec

3 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step at 4secs

4 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) High Road at 5secs

5 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) High Road at 7secs

6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Astana

7 David Millar (GBr) Slipstream-Chipotle at 8secs

8 Gustav Larsson (Swe) CSC at 9secs

9 David Zabriskie (USA) Slipstream-Chipotle at same time

10 Benjamin Jacques-Maynes (USA) Bissell Pro Cycling at 10secs

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TOUR OF CALIFORNIA: STAGE REPORTS

Stage two: Boonen wins in the rain

Stage one: Haedo wins sprint

Prologue: Cancellara wins

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TOUR OF CALIFORNIA: VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

Video highlights: stage one

Video highlights: prologue

RELATED LINKS

Tour of California: photo gallery

Cipollini: "Third here is worth a hundred other victories"

Stage two: Cavendish angry after sprint mix-up

Cancellara angry with Hamilton, Sevilla, Botero protests

Cancellara: "I always have to win prologues"

Wiggins and Millar unhappy with prologue rides

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