Georgia’07 St.7 – Three J’s: JJ And Janez

By Jered Gruber On Apr 23, 2007

The final day of the 2007 Tour de Georgia came down to the assured field sprint. This time it was JJ Haedo who got the measure of Fast Freddie, who had nipped him on the line a day earlier. The racing was once again hot – with Cesar Grajales and Kirk O’Bee doin’ double-time to try and stay away. For the final day, PEZ serves up a photo essay…

The top three woulda shoulda coulda’s from the 2007 Tour of Georgia: Levi Leipheimer ‘would’ have won in dominating fashion, followed by Tom Danielson, and most impressively: Nathan O’Neill in third. Of course, there’s a reason why races are raced, so the what if’s don’t help too terribly much. Discovery can leave pretty happily though: Overall GC, Team GC, Best Young Rider, 2 Stage Wins, etc etc.

Brajkovic was cool as ever at the start of the final stage.

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The break of the day consisted of Ben Jacques-Maynes, Kirk O’Bee, and Athens, GA homeboy: Cesar Grajales.

Discovery and CSC had the field under control early on.

BJM would later leave the break due to a flat, but the two others continued on.

And the field chased like hell.

Cesar and O’Bee rode like hell to stay away.

The roads of the downtown ATL area might be a bit pot-holed and crappy, but still…it was a cool circuit.

Just a little bit further…

Cesar Grajales looked to be a good candidate for a top 10 and a possible top 5 a few weeks ago back at Redlands. He was 3rd in the Prologue and was riding crazy strong…then he touched some pavement, and got banged up hardcore. He barely managed to start the race, and rode the whole thing with a separated shoulder. That’s just tuff, and I mean tuff with two f’s.