2007 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes


2007 Toronto Rock season, Player stats, Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average


2007 Torridge District Council election
The 2007 Torridge District Council election took place on 3 May 2007 to elect members of Torridge District Council in Devon, England. The whole council was up for election and independents lost overall control of the council to no overall control.


2007 Torridge District Council election, Election result
The Conservatives gained 7 seats, while independents lost 9 seats to mean that no group had a majority on the council, with both the Conservatives and independents finishing on 13 councillors. The Conservative gains came after the number of candidates the party fielded increased from 4 at the 2003 election to 22 in 2007. Among the independents to lose their seats was the council leader Pat Ferguson, who was defeated in Bideford South  after having previously represented Three Moors ward.


2007 Torridge District Council election, Election result
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats increased by 1 to 8 seats and the Greens also gained 1 seat to have 2 councillors. 7 councillors were elected unopposed, the highest number in the country at the 2007 local elections. Overall turnout at the election was 42.1%, up from 38.4% in 2003.


2007 Torridge District Council election, Election result
Following the election the leader of the Conservative group on the council, James Morrish, became the youngest leader of the council at the age of 34.


2007 Torridge District Council election, By-elections between 2007 and 2011, Hartland and Bradworthy
A by-election was held in Hartland and Bradworthy ward after the death of the longest serving councillor in Torridge, Bill Pillman, who had first stood for the council in 1976. The seat was gained for the Liberal Democrats by Brian Redwood by a majority of 469 votes.


2007 Torridge District Council election, By-elections between 2007 and 2011, Holsworthy
Independent Pam Johns won a by-election in Holsworthy with a majority of 66 votes after the death of Liberal Democrat councillor Des Shadrick.


2007 Toulon Tournament
The 2007 Toulon Tournament was the 35th edition of the Toulon Tournament, and was held from 31 May to 9 June. It was won by France, after they beat China 3–1 in the final.


2007 Toulon Tournament squads
The following is a list of the squads which competed in the 2007 Toulon Tournament


2007 Toulon Tournament squads
Players in boldface have been capped at full international level at some point in their career.


2007 Tour Down Under
The 2007 Tour Down Under was held from 16  to 21 January 2007 in and around Adelaide, South Australia. It was a multiple stage road cycling race that took part over five stages with a total of 667 kilometres and is part of the 2006-2007 UCI Oceania Tour. The 2007 Down Under Classic was the official warm-up race for the event.


2007 Tour EP
2007 Tour EP is a tour EP by Kevin Devine released during his 2007 U.S. tour opening for the bands Brand New and Manchester Orchestra. The EP contains mostly covers, along with a new version of "Wolf's Mouth" (originally from Make The Clocks Move) and an acoustic version of "You'll Only End Up Joining Them" (originally from Put Your Ghost to Rest).


2007 Tour EP
The EP contains songs played during that tour. Three tracks ("Harvest Moon," "Holland, 1945," and "Wolf's Mouth") were included as bonus tracks on the vinyl release of Put Your Ghost to Rest. All the tracks from this EP later served as b-sides to the 2009 Splitting Up Christmas UK single.


2007 Tour de Corse
Results of Tour de Corse (51ème Tour de Corse - Rallye de France), 13th round of 2007 World Rally Championship, run on October 12–14:


2007 Tour de France
The 2007 Tour de France the 94th running of the race, took place from 7 to 29 July. The Tour began with a prologue in London, and ended with the traditional finish in Paris. Along the way, the route also passed through Belgium and Spain. It was won by Spanish rider Alberto Contador.


2007 Tour de France
The Tour was marked by doping controversies, with three riders and two teams withdrawn during the race following positive doping tests, including pre-race favourite Alexander Vinokourov and his Astana team. Following Stage 16, the leader of the general classification, Michael Rasmussen, was removed from the Tour by his Rabobank team, who accused him of lying about the reasons for missing several drug tests earlier in the year.


2007 Tour de France
The points classification, indicated by the green jersey, was won for the first time by Tom Boonen, who had failed to complete the previous two Tours after leading the points classification at times during each. The mountains classification, indicated by the polkadot jersey, was won by Mauricio Soler in his first Tour appearance.


2007 Tour de France
The general classification, indicated by the yellow jersey, was closely contested until the final time trial on stage 19. The top three riders, Alberto Contador in the yellow jersey as the leader, Cadel Evans in second, and Levi Leipheimer in third, were separated by only 2:49, with both Evans and Leipheimer recognized as far superior time trialists to Contador. In the end, each rider held his place after the final time trial, but with considerably slimmer margins, as the Tour ended with the smallest-ever spread of only 31 seconds among the top three riders. Alberto Contador also won the young rider classification, indicated by the white jersey, as the best young (under age 25) rider.


2007 Tour de France, Teams
A total of 21 teams were invited to the 2007 Tour de France. Each team sent a total of nine riders to participate in the Tour, which brought the starting total of the peloton to 189 riders. The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster are introduced in front of the media and local dignitaries – took place at Trafalgar Square in London, the day before the opening prologue held in the city.


2007 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
After the retirement of seven-time winner Lance Armstrong and with Ivan Basso and Floyd Landis not entering the Tour, the bookmakers' favourite to win the 2007 Tour de France was Alexander Vinokourov, who was unable to start in 2006 due to lack of team members, but did win the 2006 Vuelta a España. The main challengers were expected to be the 2006 Tour de France second-place finisher Andreas Klöden; and Alejandro Valverde, who dropped out of the 2006 Tour de France after a crash, but came second to Vinokourov in the 2006 Vuelta a España.


2007 Tour de France, Route and stages
The organisers of the Tour and London mayor Ken Livingstone announced on 24 January 2006 that the start of the Tour would take place in London. Livingstone noted the two stages would commemorate the victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, saying "Having the Grand Départ on the seventh of July will broadcast to the world that terrorism does not shake our city."


2007 Tour de France, Route and stages
The routes for the Prologue in London and the first full stage through Kent, finishing in Canterbury, were announced on 9 February 2006 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. This was the first time the Grand Départ was in the United Kingdom and the third time the Tour visited the United Kingdom, including Plymouth in 1974 and two stages in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in 1994.


2007 Tour de France, Route and stages
Tour director Christian Prudhomme unveiled the 2007 route in Paris on 26 October 2006. In total, the route covered 3,570 km (2,218 mi). The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,770 m (9,090 ft) at the summit of the Col de l'Iseran mountain pass on stage 9.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping cases
The first scandal arrived when it was made public on 18 July that rider Patrik Sinkewitz from the T-Mobile Team had tested positive one month before the Tour started. Sinkewitz had already withdrawn from the race having incurred an injury during the 8th stage. The scandal was big enough to prompt German TV broadcasters ZDF and ARD to drop their coverage.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping cases
The Tour was dealt a major blow when the first-place Astana team withdrew from the race on 24 July 2007, after team member and pre-race favourite Alexander Vinokourov from Kazakhstan tested positive for an illegal blood transfusion. Vinokourov's teammates Andreas Klöden and Andrey Kashechkin were in 5th and 7th place respectively at the time.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping cases
At the start of the 16th stage on 25 July, some teams made a protest against the laxness of the official attitude to doping in the race. After the stage, race officials announced that Cofidis team member Cristian Moreni of Italy had tested positive for elevated levels of testosterone, and the Cofidis team withdrew from the race.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping cases
Spanish cyclist Iban Mayo tested positive for EPO on the second rest day of the Tour, on 24 July.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping cases
French prosecutors wanted to start a legal case against Vinokourov, Mayo and Moreni, and requested the UCI to hand over the doping samples. The UCI refused to give them, and in May 2011 the investigation was stopped.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Other incidents
German cyclist Marcus Burghardt collided with a Labrador Retriever during Stage 9. The bike struck the dog on its backside, which buckled the front wheel and threw Burghardt over the handlebars onto the road.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Other incidents
A second incident involving a dog occurred on Stage 18. Sandy Casar and Frederik Willems were in a four-man break when Casar collided with a dog running across the road, causing both him and Willems to fall. Casar was able to rejoin the break with the help of Axel Merckx despite receiving road rash on his right buttock, while Willems returned to the peloton. Casar went on to win the stage.


2007 Tour de France, Race overview, Other incidents
After Stage 16, overall leader Michael Rasmussen was fired by his team, Rabobank, for violating team rules after he told the team that he was in Mexico with his wife in June, then being sighted training in Italy by Italian journalist Davide Cassani. Rasmussen disputed this claim, maintaining that he was in Mexico. Thus, at the start of stage 17 there was no holder of the yellow jersey. Afterward the lead and the jersey were transferred to Discovery Channel's Alberto Contador. Rasmussen later in 2013 confessed to doping from 1998 to 2010, including at the 2007 Tour de France.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were four main classifications contested in the 2007 Tour de France, with the most important being the general classification. The general classification was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification was considered the winner of the Tour. There were no time bonuses given at the end of stages for this edition of the Tour.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was a points classification, which awards a green jersey. In the points classification, cyclists get points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and is identified with a green jersey.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also a mountains classification. The organization categorised some climbs as either hors catégorie, first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reach the top of these climbs, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The fourth individual classification was the young rider classification, marked by the white jersey. This classification was calculated the same way as the general classification, but the classification was restricted to riders who were born on or after 1 January 1987.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team is the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that lead this classification were identified with yellow numbers.


2007 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The super-combativity award was given to Amets Txurruka. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 9. This prize was won by Mauricio Soler.


2007 Tour de France, UCI ProTour rankings
Riders in the UCI ProTour (therefore not members of the wildcard entries Barloworld or Agritubel) are awarded UCI ProTour points for their performance in the Tour de France. The winner of a stage receives 10 points, second receives 5 points and third 3 points. UCI ProTour points are also awarded for high places in the final classification, with 100 points for the overall winner.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10
These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2007 Tour de France, with the Prologue on 7 July, Stage 1 on 8 July, and Stage 10 on 18 July.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Prologue
On Saturday July 7, 2007, the Individual time trial started in Whitehall, London passing Westminster, then along Victoria Street and Buckingham Gate, past Buckingham Palace and looping through Hyde Park before finishing in The Mall. A distance of 7.9 km (4.9 mi) was covered by the riders. It was won by Team CSC's Fabian Cancellara, with a time of 8' 50".


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 1
This 203 km (126 mi) stage of the race started in London and headed through Westminster, Greenwich, Woolwich, Erith and into Kent, to Dartford, Gravesend, with an intermediate sprint for the points classification in Medway. The route headed south to Maidstone and another sprint, Tonbridge and then the first King of the Mountains climb before reaching Royal Tunbridge Wells, then the second climb at Goudhurst, another sprint in Tenterden, to Ashford and the final climb before finishing in Canterbury. All the climbs were Category 4. It was won by Robbie McEwen, who sprinted from the back of the field to claim a surprise win. This was after an extended breakaway from British cyclist David Millar.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2
The second stage marked the return of the Tour to the land of cycling, along the roads of the great Flanders classics: Tour of Flanders, Het Volk, etc. It was anticipated that the race should start to get more serious during this stage, with the wind and the risk of hitting the kerbs definitely playing an important role. It was fairly short at 168.5 km (104.7 mi) in length and with no categorized climbs.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2
There was a breakaway during the stage by Marcel Sieberg, Cedric Herve and Rubén Pérez who shared the bonuses available at the three sprints: however, this never stretched beyond 6 minutes ahead of the peloton and they were caught some 3 km from the finish.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2
Within the last 2 km, a Liquigas rider fell sideways causing others to fall. Around 20 riders fell blocking the entire road and leaving approximately 30 riders to sprint for the victory, eventually taken by Gert Steegmans in his home country ahead of his compatriot and team-mate Tom Boonen, who took over the green jersey by coming second in the stage.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 3
At 236 km (147 mi), this is the longest stage in this year's Tour. After Flanders, the peloton returned to France along some of the roads used for the Paris–Roubaix race, to finish in the town where that race starts. Nicolas Vogondy and Mathieu Ladagnous broke away from the field within the first 10 km, and were joined after 42 km by Stephane Auge and Frederik Willems. By leading the breakaway group over the only classified climb of the day, the Cote de Blerancourt, Auge gained the polka dot shirt. The group was caught by race leader Fabian Cancellara, and by the rest of the peloton, some 500 meters from the finish. Cancellara held off the sprinters to win the stage and to gain time bonuses that extended his lead in the general classification.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4
This stage headed virtually due south, with four category 4 climbs, passing through the Champagne region and the plains of Brie, before crossing the valleys in the Yonne department along its 193 km (120 mi) course. Injuries received in the race for points on the first hill, forced Xabier Zandio's immediate withdrawal, and caused Remy Di Gregorio to finish almost 8 minutes behind the leaders and rendered him unfit to resume the race the next day.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4
The main breakaway was initiated by Matthieu Sprick and he was joined by Sylvain Chavanel (whose time bonuses gained at intermediate sprints and hills lifted him into the top 10 in the general classification), Gorka Verdugo, Juan Antonio Flecha and Christian Knees; the lead over the peloton was never more than four minutes, and they were caught with just under 5 km remaining. In the first clean sprint of this year's race, Thor Hushovd won from Robert Hunter and earned time bonuses that moved him into second place overall.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 5
The fifth stage featured eight climbs, including one Category 2 climb. Many of the sprinters lost contact with the peloton, but all of the major contenders finished together, apart from Alexander Vinokourov. Vinokourov crashed before the final climb, and ended up losing more than a minute to the rest of the field. The stage was won by Filippo Pozzato.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 6
This stage is relatively flat, with only two category 4 climbs, and was the last opportunity for the sprinters to shine before the race went into the mountains. On the 40th anniversary of the death of Tom Simpson, Cofidis rider Bradley Wiggins led from the two kilometre mark and at one stage was 18 minutes clear, but riding alone took its toll and with seven kilometres left he was reeled in. That left Tom Boonen to beat Óscar Freire and Erik Zabel in a sprint finish for his first Tour stage win in two years. After the stage Wiggins revealed his lone breakaway was a gift to his wife on her birthday, with Wiggins only finding out about the date's significance after the race.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7
This was the first mountain stage and the start of the real difficulties for many of the riders. The first kilometres, with three smaller climbs, were a gradual introduction for the riders, before they tackled the Alps and the first real mountain pass of the Tour, the Col de la Colombière (16 km at 6.7%), lying 15 kilometres from the finish line.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7
Linus Gerdemann was in a 15-man break for much of the 197.5 km stage but the T-Mobile rider went it alone over the Col de la Colombière, finishing 40 seconds clear of Inigo Landaluze, to take the yellow jersey from Fabian Cancellara.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7
Injured race favourites Alexander Vinokourov and Andreas Klöden finished in a group 3'38" behind, as did fellow big names Cadel Evans, Alejandro Valverde and Levi Leipheimer.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
This was the shortest road stage, but was very tough. The climbing started from the outset, with two small climbs in the first 25 km before, from 75 kilometres out, tackling the Cormet de Roselend (19 km at 6%), the Montée d'Hauteville - the start of the Col du Petit Saint-Bernard - and the climb up to Tignes (18 km at 5.5%) for a very difficult finish at a height of 2068 m.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
Denmark's Michael Rasmussen went it alone for victory in Tignes to secure the Tour de France Yellow jersey. Rasmussen, who began the day 39th overall, was part of a breakaway halfway through the 165 km eighth stage. He went solo on the last climb to finish two minutes and 47 seconds ahead of Iban Mayo and 5:04 clear of Linus Gerdemann, now second overall.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
Alexander Vinokourov and Andreas Klöden both lost 4:29 while Michael Rogers crashed out of the race. T-Mobile leader Rogers was in the same group as Rasmussen - and the race leader on the road - on the descent of the Cormet de Roselend when he hit a roadside barrier. He bravely carried on before being forced to pull up later with a dislocated shoulder.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
Levi Leipheimer sustained a ten-second penalty for slipstreaming behind his team car after sustaining a mechanical issue which necessitated a bike change. Had this not occurred, Leipheimer would have finished 2nd overall in the general classification, 2 seconds in front of Cadel Evans.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9
The riders made a cold start to the Hors Categorie climb up to the Col de l'Iseran (15 km at 6%), followed by the Col du Télégraphe and the Col du Galibier (12 km at 6.7% and 17.5 km at 7%) with a 37 km downhill finish in Briançon.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9
After joining with a breakaway, Colombian Mauricio Soler made a strong move over the Col du Télégraphe, and stayed away through the descent of the Col du Galibier to claim the first-ever Tour de France stage win for the wild-card Barloworld team.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9
Speculation ensued after the race, as Alberto Contador had a flat tire while chasing Soler. Many believed that he would have caught Soler had this not happened.


2007 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 10
This was a long, mostly downhill stage finishing in Marseille. While most expected a group sprint, a five-man breakaway survived to the end, with Cédric Vasseur winning in the small sprint.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20
These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2007 Tour de France, with Stage 11 on 19 July, and Stage 20 on 29 July.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11
This was the first of two transition stages between the Alps and the Pyrenees, with no climbs.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11
Robbie Hunter took the stage when he powered for the line and held off Fabian Cancellara after a number of sprinters crashed in the final kilometre on a tight corner.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11
French favourite Christophe Moreau finished more than three minutes after the leaders. He was caught napping when Astana hit the front shortly after going through the feed zone in Arles. Despite the best efforts of his AG2R team Moreau could not bridge the gap, which increased steadily as the leaders set a relentless pace. On a day in which no movement was expected at the top of the General Classification, Moreau, who crashed early in the stage, slipped from sixth to 14th after coming in three minutes 20 seconds back.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11
Michael Rasmussen kept clear of danger on the 182.5 km flat route from Marseille to Montpellier to maintain his hold on the yellow jersey. And it looked as if Tom Boonen would tighten his grip on the green jersey with Erik Zabel off the pace, but the Belgian lost momentum on the fringes of the crash in the final kilometre and eventually came home 37th. New Zealander Julian Dean hit the deck along with Iker Camaño, Sebastien Hinault, Marcel Sieberg and Fränk Schleck.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12
This was another transition stage heading west to Castres, with a category 2 climb just 40 km from the finish. The terrain was expected to offer some opportunities for the attackers but ending in a sprint at the finish line.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12
The first attack of the day to get away happened at about the 52 km mark when Amets Txurruka and Pierrick Fédrigo broke away from the peloton. A couple of chases, including a solo effort by Marcus Burghardt, briefly got away but were soon reeled in by the peloton.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12
Shortly after the descent from the category 2 climb near the finish, the pace set by Française des Jeux and Lampre-Fondital at the front of the peloton, in an effort to catch Txurruka and Fédrigo, became so blisteringly fast that some riders willingly dropped off the back of the peloton, knowing that by dropping off so close to the finish line they would not risk being disqualified.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12
Txurruka and Fédrigo proved much more difficult to catch than first thought; as the peloton neared them within 10 km to the finish line, it was calculated that the catch would occur between 2 and 3 km to the line. The two valiantly fought on and wound up being caught just as the peloton reached the 1 km to go mark, leading to a classic bunched sprint at the finish, where the top three men in the points classification standings were the first three to the line.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
This was the first individual time trial since the prologue and was relatively flat with a twisty downhill finish.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
An early downpour of rain saturated the road and made for dangerous conditions for many of the early riders. Reigning world time trial champion (and winner of the Prologue time trial) Fabian Cancellara had extreme difficulty negotiating a right-hand turn around the 30 km mark and lost most of his speed, before eventually crashing and losing a great deal of time. Others also fell at this turn.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
Cofidis' Bradley Wiggins rode through the rain to set the first time to beat, that stood for most of the day. Alexander Vinokourov lead at every time check and shattered Wiggins' final time by more than two minutes. It is likely, however, that his performance was aided by drugs.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
General classification leader Michael Rasmussen was expected to lose a great deal of time, having had one of the worst time trials ever for a top-flight professional in the 2005 Tour de France. He finished 11th originally, much better than expected, and was upgraded to 10th when Vinokourov was disqualified, though his own premature exit from the Tour days later casts doubt on this performance.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
The rain let up by the time there were about 40 riders left to leave the starthouse, though the course still remained more treacherous than it would have been had the day been completely dry.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13
Vinokourov originally won the stage in 1h 06'34", but on April 30, 2008 he was officially stripped of the victory due to his subsequent positive test for blood doping.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14
The race headed into the Pyrenees. This stage started with a category 2 climb out of Mazamet and then followed a relatively calm route via Carcassonne, Limoux and Quillan before taking on the Port de Pailhères (17 km at 7.2%) and a very difficult finish at Plateau-de-Beille (16 km at 7.9%).


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14
A six-man breakaway formed out of a group that at first numbered 27. That 27-man group featured race leader Michael Rasmussen and his King of the Mountains rival Mauricio Soler. The six who went forward attained a maximum advantage before the Saunier Duval and Rabobank squads set to reeling them in. Their pace proved fast enough that the autobus formed almost immediately as the peloton started the ascent up the Port de Pailhères.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14
More splits occurred on the later climbs in the course, with the yellow jersey group, paced by Rasmussen's teammates, numbering some 45 riders for most of the stage.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14
Rasmussen attacked on the ascent to the Plateau-de-Beille, and only Alberto Contador could stay with him. They caught every member of the leading break. Soler had earlier taken the lead in the King of the Mountains, but Rasmussen retook it at the Plateau-de-Beille, though Contador outsprinted Rasmussen to the finish line.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15
This was thought to be one of the major stages of the Tour, with no fewer than five major mountain passes - including the Col de Port, the Col de Portet d'Aspet (5.7 km climb at 6.9%), the Col de Menté (7.0 km climb at 8.1%), the Port de Balès (19.5 km at 6.2%), (the first time this climb was featured in the Tour), and finally the Col de Peyresourde (9.7 km climb at 7.8%) with a downhill finish in Loudenvielle.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15
An early 2-man break was joined by a 23-man chase group to form a leading group of 25 that represented 17 teams. Notables in this group included Alexander Vinokourov, the original stage winner, Kim Kirchen, was upgraded to the stage victory upon Vinokourov's disqualification, and Haimar Zubeldia, whose second place on the stage vaulted him into the top ten in the General Classification, as well as George Hincapie, Denis Menchov, and Bernhard Kohl.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15
Many splits occurred on the way up the Col de Peyresourde, with Vinokourov taking a quick 30 second lead over his breakaway mates, holding on to that advantage to be the original stage winner. Michael Rasmussen and Alberto Contador traded attack after attack from the group they had been in, catching most of the early break, finishing in the top ten of the stage, and gaining time over other contenders such as Cadel Evans, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Klöden, and Carlos Sastre, who were left in the remnants of the group they had left.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15
Vinokourov originally won the stage in 5h 34'28", but on April 30, 2008, he was formally stripped of the victory due to his positive test for blood doping the next day.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Rest day 2
News of a failed blood doping test by Astana rider Alexander Vinokourov after Stage 15 filtered through late on Monday evening. On Tuesday, the rest day, Marc Biver announced that the entire Astana squad remaining in the Tour would be withdrawn. Two of their riders, Andreas Klöden (5th) and Andrey Kashechkin (8th), were in the top 10. This altered the general classification standings.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
After a rest day, the riders took in the Tour's hardest stage, and the last chance for the climbers to make the time gains they’d need before the final time trial. The race was thought to split up somewhat on the brutal Port de Larrau (14.7 km climb at 8.1%), despite the fact that its summit came just 79 km into the stage. The race dipped into Spain for some 50 kilometres at the summit, the fourth country visited in this year's Tour.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
From there, there was little reprieve for the riders, hitting the Alto Laza and the Col de la Pierre St Martin (14.2 km climb at 5.2%) before descending to the start of the difficult, and very steep, first-category Col de Marie-Blanque (9.3 km climb at 7.4%). The riders then climbed the infamous Col d'Aubisque (16.7 km climb at 7%), which rewarded out-and-out climbing ability and punish the legs of all the major contenders.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
The Basque separatist group ETA carried out at least 1 explosion along the route near the town of Belagua. However the riders had already gone past that point and no one was hurt.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
An early attack by  Stéphane Augé, one-time holder of the polka-dot jersey during this Tour, was answered by José Vicente García, Gorka Verdugo and Christophe Rinero. As Verdugo, 67th and more than 90 minutes behind Michael Rasmussen, was the best-placed man in this break the peloton was more than happy to let them go. Barloworld set to pacing the peloton after the escape, with Rabobank staying close behind them.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
Mauricio Soler came free from the peloton before the first climb of the day and took full points available to him, taking the lead outright in the King of the Mountains from Rasmussen. He and Carlos Sastre, for whom it was something of a surprise that he was able to get away from the peloton easily as he was 5th in the GC at the beginning of the day, worked together to stay away as long as possible.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16
They wound up being caught with 11 kilometers left to race by a group containing Rasmussen, Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer, and numerous domestiques from their teams. Rasmussen came clear of this group on the way up the Aubisque to win the stage. It was thought at the time that this all but cinched his victory in the Tour, since only flat stages and an individual time trial remained, and that even a relatively weak time trialist like Rasmussen was unlikely to lose three to five minutes.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16, Withdrawals
Following stage 16, Cofidis rider, Cristian Moreni, was arrested by French police after testing positive for synthetic testosterone after stage 11. With this, the entire Cofidis team withdrew the rest of their team from the Tour. Later that evening, news broke that overall leader, Michael Rasmussen, was withdrawn from the Tour by his Rabobank team due to allegedly lying about his whereabouts during a three-week training session in Mexico in which he was unavailable for UCI doping controls. This elevated Alberto Contador to the overall lead of the race. However, as this occurred after the jersey presentations of Stage 16, there would be no maillot jaune wearer on Stage 17.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
The race left the mountains behind and turned north towards Paris. This stage had a series of small climbs, but was expected to give those sprinters who had survived the chance to earn some points.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
At the 9 km mark and after a few attempted escapes, an eight man break, including team leaders David Millar and Daniele Bennati, got away, but their lead was restricted for a long time to about two minutes by the peloton. The pace was being made by the "virtual" leader's team Discovery and Predictor-Lotto, despite the fact that no threat to the GC was posed: Jens Voigt, 34th overall and over an hour behind Alberto Contador, was the best placed man in the break. Caisse d'Epargne made the pace in earnest for a while.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
It was thought at the time that they wanted to try to keep their second position in the team classification, but their directeur sportif said the next day that they simply wanted to try to win the stage. The move was extremely unpopular within the peloton, with riders like Tom Boonen and Cadel Evans speaking up about it.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
Denis Menchov abandoned the Tour two hours into the stage. The Caisse d'Epargne riders dropped when the break extended to four minutes over the peloton, and Discovery retook the workload. The lead of the break extended more and more; essentially Discovery was content to let them go. When the lead ballooned to eight minutes, it was calculated, given the flat course, the peloton could not make the gap up even if they wanted to. A bunched sprint for ninth place and the 17 green jersey points it afforded was still expected.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
With about 18 km, Daniele Righi and Manuel Quinziato were dropped by the leading group after an attack from Bennati; not long after, Millar and Matteo Tosatto were also dropped, leaving a leading group of four - Voigt, Bennati, Markus Fothen, and Martin Elmiger. Voigt took almost all of the workload. At just under 4 km to go, Voigt attacked the group, but Bennati bridged the gap. They tried to break away from Fothen and Elmiger but could not.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17
Bennati, easily the strongest sprinter in the break, got to the line first. Tom Boonen, holder of the green jersey, made it to the line ahead of his rivals Robert Hunter and Erik Zabel.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18
This was a long stage, with a few small climbs near the start, and was regarded as the last chance for any surprises.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18
Around 17 km into the stage, Michael Boogerd and Laurent Lefevre launched the first successful attack of the day. They distanced themselves from the Discovery-led peloton that again seemed content to let the break get away, opting instead to protect Alberto Contador for the next day's individual time trial. The teams of the green jersey contenders also seemed fine with competing merely for fifth place rather than the 35 points given to the stage winner.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18
The two were quickly joined by a counter-attack from Axel Merckx and Sandy Casar; Boogerd and Lefevre sat up and allowed those two to join them. Casar struck a dog on the road when he and Frederick Willems were chasing Boogerd and Lefevre, and both of them went down. Casar got up quickly, but Willems was slower and wound up being absorbed by the peloton. The crash resulted in Casar tearing his gear and having to ride with a nasty wound on his exposed buttocks, since dropping off to change and have the wound treated would cost him his position. Later, the race doctor's car made it up to the leading group to tend to Casar's hip and right elbow, as well as a bee sting sustained by Boogerd.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18
The lead of the breakaway grew upwards of 17' 30". With Boogerd challenging the top-ten GC places of Haimar Zubeldia and Mikel Astarloza on the road, Euskaltel-Euskadi came to the front of the peloton to take the workload when the leaders were around 28 km to the line. The gap more steadily fell from that point on, successfully knocking Boogerd out of the top ten.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18
As the breakaway neared the finish, the riders traded attacks, but there was no real beginning to the closing sprint. A quick closing kick from Casar gave him the stage win, with a 1 second gap over his mates. Boonen's Quick Step team came forward in the final two kilometers to lead him out, with Robert Hunter and Erik Zabel right in the mix. Boonen again made it to the line ahead of his rivals, essentially clinching the green jersey win. The peloton split on the way up the slight uphill finish, giving Cadel Evans and Yaroslav Popovych, among others, three seconds back on Contador.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19
This was the second time trial stage, with long straight stretches, some beautiful sections of unbending road and some slight inclines (with one located about 600 m to the finish line). It was clear that time-trial specialists would be the center of attention. After an impressive performance during the Pyrenees crossing and the capture of the yellow jersey due to Michael Rasmussen's dismissal, Alberto Contador expressed his concerns about being beaten in the final time trial of the competition.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19
Before the riders located above the 20th place started, Belgian Leif Hoste set a time of 1h 05' 32", making him the 1st ranked rider of the stage for a long period of time. Nonetheless, with the start of the favourites for the stage, he gradually went down through the standings, finishing in 9th position. David Millar, who was expected to be a contender for victory, experienced mechanical trouble, needing to change bikes twice within the first kilometer.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19
Three teams dominated the time trial: Discovery Channel, Caisse d'Epargne and Predictor-Lotto. Vladimir Karpets, current Spanish time trial champion, Iván Gutiérrez and Óscar Pereiro secured 3rd, 6th and 8th positions respectively for Caisse d'Epargne. On the other hand, Discovery Channel and Predictor-Lotto set up a fierce fight for the overall standings, primarily involving Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer and Cadel Evans. Of the top three GC riders, Leipheimer was the first off the start ramp followed by Evans and Contador.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19
Leipheimer dominated the time trial, passing his three-minute man, Carlos Sastre, and shattering everyone's time at each intermediate time check before beating Karpets' time at the finish by almost two minutes. On the course, Evans needed to gain two seconds per kilometer on Contador in order to take the maillot jaune but he fell short of his goal by 23 seconds. He eventually completed the course in 1h 03' 35", 51 seconds behind Leipheimer. After Leipheimer and Evans completed the course, Contador needed to cross the finish line within 1h 05' 25" in order to keep the yellow jersey. In the end, he crossed the line in a time of 1h 05' 02 ", just enough to keep the yellow jersey heading into the final flat ceremonial stage to Champs-Élysées in Paris, putting him on the verge of winning his first Grand Tour.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19
Six years later, Leipheimer's results from this year's Tour were stripped.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20
The grand finale, as the race entered Paris to complete the eight laps of the traditional circuit around the Champs-Élysées.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20
The ride to the Champs-Élysées is traditionally free of attacks prior to the famous avenue, and the GC standings from the previous stage usually stand as the final result, as only sprinters (who are very low in the GC at this point) will usually attack. However, with only 31 seconds separating the top three men, there was much speculation that that would not be the case during this final stage.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20
However, the peloton proved to stay together all the way until the Champs-Élysées, except for brief escapes to nab the final intermediate sprint and two small climbs. Tradition held up; Discovery successfully led Contador onto the famous street before the sprinting began. Freddy Bichot briefly got away on the second circuit. Chris Horner of Cadel Evans' Predictor-Lotto team tried to get away soon after, but the peloton was much less willing to let him leave. When Alejandro Valverde and Axel Merckx counter-attacked Bichot to bring him back into the field, Discovery faded back.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20
A ten-man group formed a measurable break over the peloton during the third circuit. Barloworld came to the front of the peloton to try to bring the break back. The catch occurred on the final circuit.


2007 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20
Daniele Bennati won the last sprint to the line. Maillot jaune wearer, Alberto Contador, finished safely within the peloton to win the Tour overall, his first Grand Tour victory. The other classification leaders also crossed the line safely to confirm their win in their respective classifications. The traditional prize-giving commenced shortly after the race.


2007 Tour de Georgia
The 2007 Tour de Georgia was a seven-stage professional bicycle race held from April 16 through April 22, 2007 across the state of Georgia and into Tennessee. The race was part of the 2007 USA Cycling Pro Tour. The race was the highest ranked event of the 2006–2007 UCI America Tour.


2007 Tour de Georgia
The 2007 race began in Peachtree City, and crossed parts of north Georgia, including climbing stages that went to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee and Brasstown Bald, the highest point of elevation in Georgia. The final stage was a circuit in the streets of Atlanta, and ended at Centennial Olympic Park.


2007 Tour de Hongrie
The 2007 Tour de Hongrie was the 34th edition of the Tour de Hongrie cycle race and was held from 24 to 28 July 2007. The race started in Gyömrő and finished in Miskolc. The race was won by Andrew Bradley.


2007 Tour de Langkawi
The 2007 Tour de Langkawi was the 12th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 2 February in Langkawi and ended on 11 February in Kuala Lumpur. This race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2006–07 UCI Asia Tour calendar.


2007 Tour de Langkawi
Anthony Charteau, the French cyclist emerged as the winner of the race, followed by two Colombian cyclists; José Serpa second and Walter Pedraza third. Alberto Loddo of Italy won the points classification category and Walter Pedraza won the mountains classification category. Giant Asia Racing Team won the team classification category.


2007 Tour de Langkawi, Stages
The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,352.2 kilometres. Stage 3 and Stage 8 were mountain type stage.


2007 Tour de Langkawi, List of teams and riders
A total of 23 teams were invited to participate in the 2007 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 136 riders, a total of 102 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.


2007 Tour de Pologne
The 2007 Tour de Pologne was held from September 9 to 15, 2007 in Poland. The race began with a very short team time trial in the streets of Warsaw, and its toughest stages were in the proximity of Jelenia Góra, as usual. In all, the race comprised seven stages.


2007 Tour de Romandie
The 2007 Tour de Romandie served as the 59th edition of this event now held on the 2007 UCI ProTour. The stage race was held from May 1 through May 6, 2007 in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy. The race winner was Thomas Dekker of Rabobank.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Prologue – 2007-05-01, Fribourg, 3.5 km ITT
Italian Paolo Savoldelli (Astana) repeats his win in last year's prologue with a time of 4 minutes, 35 seconds over the 3.5 kilometer course at 45.82 km/h (28.5 mph).


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 1 – 2007-05-02, Granges-Paccot – La Chaux de Fonds, 157 km
Germany's hope for the future Markus Fothen of Gerolsteiner took the win after he escaped in the finale together with Francisco Pérez. Fothen beat him in a classical sprint-a-deux. The peloton bunch sprint was just behind the two leaders.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 2 – 2007-05-03, La Chaux de Fonds – Lucens, 167 km
The only real sprinter stage of this edition of the Tour de Romandie was an easy win for Australian rider Robbie McEwen. The Predictor–Lotto rider held off Borut Božič with ease.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 3 – 2007-05-04, Moudon – Charmey, 163 km
Although the course was really difficult, the favourites did not feel like attacking today. And thus, the escapees got their shot at winning a stage. After a win in the Tirreno Adriatico Lampre–Fondital cyclist Matteo Bono added another nice win to his palmares. He held of Japan's Beppu in the sprint. Beppu did score the first Pro Tour points ever for Japan though.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 4 – 2007-05-05, Charmey – Pas de Morgins, 156 km
A long break by Lampre–Fondital rider Gorazd Stangelj finished with 8 kilometers to go. By then, Astana's Eddy Mazzoleni upped the pace. He thinned out the group until there were about 15 riders left. Attacks followed by José Ángel Gómez Marchante and Sylwester Szmyd. But the only real successful attack was by Spaniard Igor Antón. Dutch rider Thomas Dekker saw the danger and took over from Mazzoleni. As a result, only five riders could follow. American Predictor–Lotto cyclist Chris Horner attacked with 4 kilometers to go.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 4 – 2007-05-05, Charmey – Pas de Morgins, 156 km
Dekker replied instantly and with much pain and suffering also Frenchman John Gadret managed to follow. The trio caught up with Anton, who was happy he could sit in last wheel and follow. Although Dekker made the strongest impression and tried to get away twice, it was Anton who took the win. Dekker disputed the win due to a seemingly irregular sprint by Anton. But his protest was denied.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 5 – 2007-05-06, Lausanne, 20 km ITT
In the finishing time trial around Lausanne Thomas Dekker didn't allow his competitors to have any hopes of winning the Tour de Romandie. Only Astana riders Paolo Savoldelli and Andrey Kashechkin stayed somewhat in the vicinity of Dekker. The young Dutch hope of winning the Tour de France in the future did a triple strike by winning the time trial, the final general classification and the points classification.


2007 Tour de Romandie, Stages, Stage 5 – 2007-05-06, Lausanne, 20 km ITT
The following UCI ProTour and UCI Professional Continental teams were named to the 2007 Tour de Romandie:


2007 Tour de Romandie, Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race
As of May 6, 2007, after the Tour de Romandie


2007 Tour de Romandie, Individual 2007 UCI ProTour standings after race
While the top 10 places remained the same, race winner Thomas Dekker scored his first UCI ProTour points and moved into 11th place. Australian sprinter Robbie McEwen gained three points to jump from 18th to 15th place. Paolo Savoldelli moves into 18th place thanks to the 45 points scored at the Tour de Romandie.


2007 Tour de San Luis
The 2007 Tour de San Luis was a men's road cycling race held from 23  to 28 January 2007 in Argentina. It was a multiple stage race over a prologue and five stages with a total of 625 kilometres.


2007 Tour de Suisse
The 2007 Tour de Suisse, the 71st edition of the cycle race, took place from 16 June until 24 June. As usual, the race began with a short prologue and featured a long individual time trial. Besides, riders also had to face several mountain stages in the Swiss Alps, including the Grimselpass, a 12.1 kilometres long climb with an average gradient of 6.6% and slopes at 10%. The race also visited the neighbouring countries of Liechtenstein and Austria.


2007 Tour de Suisse
The four top finishers of the 2006 edition, Jan Ullrich, Koldo Gil, Jörg Jaksche and Ángel Vicioso did not take part in 2007, as in one way or another they were all affected by the Operación Puerto affair. Koldo Gil was the only one of these riders who was not left without a team, after Ullrich was fired by his T-Mobile Team and Vicioso and Jaksche's team Liberty Seguros–Würth folded.


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 1
16 June 2007 - Olten, 3.8 km (2.4 mi) (ITT)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 2
17 June 2007 - Olten to Luzern, 158.6 km (98.5 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 3
18 June 2007 - Brunnen to Nauders, 228.7 km (142.1 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 4
19 June 2007 - Nauders to Triesenberg–Malbun, 167.2 km (103.9 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 5
20 June 2007 - Vaduz to Giubiasco, 192.8 km (119.8 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6
21 June 2007 - Giubiasco to Crans-Montana, 190.5 km (118.4 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 6
Due to a hailstorm, race officials once abandoned the stage. The stage was later restarted in Ulrichen and was shortened to 95 kilometers. The hors categorie climb of Nufenenpass was cancelled as well.


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 7
22 June 2007 - Ulrichen to Grimselpass, 125.7 km (78.1 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 8
23 June 2007 - Innertkirchen to Schwarzsee, 152.5 km (94.8 mi)


2007 Tour de Suisse, Stages, Stage 9
24 June 2007 - Bern, 34.2 km (21.3 mi) (ITT)


2007 Tour de Vineyards
The 2007 Tour de Vineyards was held from 1 January to 4 January 2007 in New Zealand. It was a multiple stage road cycling race that sent the male riders around Richmond in four days with a total of 335 km (208 mi), while the female riders cycled a total of 290 km (180 mi). The male race was won by Heath Blackgrove, who also won two of the four stages, and the female race by Serena Sheridan who won three of the four stages.


2007 Tour de Wallonie
The 2007 Tour de Wallonie was the 34th edition of the Tour de Wallonie cycle race and was held on 28 July to 1 August 2007. The race started in Haccourt and finished in Barvaux. The race was won by Borut Božič.


2007 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin
The 2007 Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin was the 23rd edition of the Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, a women's cycling stage race in France. It was rated by the UCI as a category 2.2 race and was held between 18 and 27 May 2007.


2007 Tour de las Américas
The 2007 Tour de las Américas season consisted of eleven golf tournaments, hosted in six countries across South and Central America. Six events were played in Argentina, two in Venezuela and one each in Colombia, Costa Rica and Chile.


2007 Tour de las Américas
The Tour de las Américas continued its close association with the PGA European Tour, with five events being co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour, Europe's official development tour.


2007 Tour du Haut Var
The 2007 Tour du Haut Var was the 39th edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 25 February 2007. The race started and finished in Draguignan. The race was won by Filippo Pozzato.


2007 Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)
Tour of Azerbaijan 2007 was the 22nd running of the Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan), which took place between 22 May and 29 May 2007 in Iranian Azerbaijan. The tour had 7 stages, in which Hossein Askari from Iran won the first place in over all of the tour.


2007 Tour of Britain
The 2007 edition of the Tour of Britain stage race was run as a UCI 2.1 category in seven stages starting in London on 9 September and finishing in Glasgow on 15 September. The Tour was extended to seven days for 2007, with the extra day being used to run a stage in Somerset for the first time. Instead of finishing in London as in previous years, the 2007 race started in London and finished in Glasgow, which is using the event to boost its bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.


2007 Tour of Britain
French rider Romain Feillu won the overall race, Mark Cavendish won the Points competition and Ben Swift won the Mountains competition.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Prologue
The tour started with a 2.5 km prologue time trial at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. The leader's yellow jersey was claimed by Britain's Mark Cavendish in a time of two minutes 27.6 seconds, ahead of two Russian riders. As a result, Cavendish was the first British rider to take yellow since the Tour of Britain resumed in 2004. The result was debated as the electronic timing system did not turn up and the timing was thus completed with basic stopwatches.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 1
The first road stage of the tour started at Reading's Palmer Park Stadium, finishing at Southampton's Hoglands Park, in the city centre. En route, it passed through Whitchurch, Stockbridge and the New Forest. The route was relatively level with only two small climbs.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 1
Mark Cavendish extended his overall lead in the Tour, winning the stage by coming home in a bunch sprint ahead of Belgian Steven Caethoven. Pre -race favourite Robbie Hunter crashed with 3.5 km to go and came home on his own four minutes later.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 2
The second road stage was mainly in Somerset and started at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton before travelling west through Taunton and Dunster. The first major climb of the tour was at Porlock Hill (using the private toll road), which is a First Category King of the Mountains climb. There followed a steep descent into Lynmouth before climbing to Watersmeet, a Second Category climb. The route then passed through Simonsbath and Exford before reaching the final climb at Wheddon Cross. The race finished in the centre of Taunton.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 2
Nikolai Trusov steered clear of a late crash to win the stage and take the yellow jersey from Mark Cavendish. Trusov was part of a 36-man break which made a decisive move after two-thirds of the gruelling 169.5 km leg. He kept pace with the leaders and hit the front after avoiding a four-man pile-up close to the finish in Taunton. Cavendish, the prologue and first stage winner, came home in 34th, more than 10 minutes behind Trusov.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 3
Stage 3 is one of the shortest stages of the 2007 race – the route was constantly undulating featuring an early Category 1 climb through the Malvern Hills before heading north via  	Ankardine Hill (also Cat. 1) and Bridgnorth to join the Severn Valley at Bewdley, continuing towards the Ironbridge Gorge where the riders tackled the final King of the Mountains climb of the day at Coalport bank 26 km. before the finish in Wolverhampton.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 3
Matt Goss held his nerve in a sprint finish to take victory in the stage, edging out Freddy Bichot and Roger Hammond at the finish in Wolverhampton; but Goss failed to take the overall lead from Russian Nikolai Trusov, who still has an eight-second advantage.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 3
Britons Paul Manning, Ben Swift, Rob Partridge, Mark Cavendish and John Bellis all finished in the top 10.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 4
The stage started in Rother Valley Country Park before heading north to the first climb (the Third Category ascent of Limestone Hill) after 18.2 km. The race then passed east of Doncaster before heading into the eastern Pennines. After Ilkley the road headed upwards, to the climb of the Cow & Calf, the final First Category climb of this year's Tour. From the top of the climb, there was just 21 km to the finish in Bradford in Lister Park.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 4
The Tour of Britain organisers honoured charity fundraiser Jane Tomlinson by naming the stage in Yorkshire after the 43-year-old who lost her battle against cancer in the week before the tour commenced.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 4
The stage was marred when the riders were forced to cease racing and ride behind a safety car after organisers failed to close the roads to traffic. The stage was neutralised for 20 miles after a dispute between the organisers and North Yorkshire Police.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 4
After demonstrating his climbing skills in the Pennines, Adrian Palomares took the stage on the line from Tom Stubbe and the yellow jersey from Nikolai Trusov. A 26-man break had developed, with Luke Roberts briefly taking the outright lead, but Palomares hit the front after the race was neutralised. He made a decisive break over the Cow and Calf climb and was able to hold off Stubbe and fellow Spaniard David Blanco in the sprint to the line.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 5
Stage 5 travelled from the sea to the fells, as the race made its way from Liverpool to the Cumbrian town of Kendal, in the most picturesque stage of this year's race, featuring three categorised climbs and the constantly rolling roads of the Forest of Bowland and the northern Pennines. After leaving Liverpool the stage headed along the coastline, passing the sand dunes and pine forests at Formby and on through Southport. The race then turned inland through Walton le Dale before beginning to climb, on its way up to the Second Category climb of Grizedale.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 5
After passing through the historic market town of Kirkby Lonsdale, came the climbs of Old Town and Blease Hill in quick succession. Both of these are Second Category climbs, counting towards the King of the Mountains competition. From the summit of Blease Hill, it was just over 11 kilometres to the finish line in the Kendal at the top of the fearsome Beast Banks.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 5
Alexander Serov took the stage after proving too strong for Mark Cavendish in the final stages. Serov and Cavendish went clear after 72 km before Serov shook off the Briton in the final 16 km, finishing one minute 43 seconds ahead of Cavendish. Adrian Palomares remains one second ahead of fellow Spaniard David Blanco Rodriguez in the overall classification.


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 6
The final stage started in Dumfries before heading into the Southern Uplands, with three category 3 climbs at Clovehead, Whiteside Hill and Black Hill (56.5 km from the finish line in Glasgow).


2007 Tour of Britain, Stages, Stage 6
Paul Manning broke for home in the final two kilometres to take the stage win, whilst Romain Feillu beat Adrian Palomares in the final stage to clinch a narrow overall victory. The times were dead level at the end of the race but Feillu was confirmed as the yellow jersey winner by just 0.49 seconds as a result of the times on the opening day's prologue.


2007 Tour of Britain, Final classifications
French rider Romain Feillu of Agritubel won the general classification.


2007 Tour of Britain, Final classifications
The points competition and sprinters award were won by Mark Cavendish while Ben Swift won the King of the Mountains competition.


2007 Tour of California
The Amgen Tour of California 2007 was the second edition of an eight-day, 650-mile (1,045 km) stage race that raced through the California redwoods, wine country and the Pacific Coast. The road bicycle racing event was held February 18, 2007. The 2007 Tour of California was part of the 2006–2007 UCI America Tour and the inaugural 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour.


2007 Tour of California
On November 28, 2006, the UCI upgraded the multi-day event from 2.1 (category 1) to 2.HC (French: Hors Categorie; English: beyond categorization).


2007 Tour of California, Stages and results, Prologue: San Francisco
The Prologue was an individual time trial held Sunday, February 18, 2007, in San Francisco. Native Californian and last year's prologue champion Levi Leipheimer edged out Colorado's Jason Donald from Slipstream–Chipotle and former NCAA Road Champion Benjamin Jacques-Maynes.


2007 Tour of California, Stages and results, Stage 1: Sausalito to Santa Rosa
Stage 1 was held Monday, February 19, 2007. A breakaway of four riders including Adam Hansen of T-Mobile Team was reeled in shortly before the finish in Santa Rosa. During the second of the three finishing laps in Santa Rosa, a crash took down most of the peloton, including leader Levi Leipheimer. Those not involved in the crash fought for the stage victory, taken by Graeme Brown by mere millimeters.


2007 Tour of California, Stages and results, Stage 1: Sausalito to Santa Rosa
Riders involved in the crash lost several minutes, but the race officials decided to credit most of them with the winner's time, meaning that Leipheimer retained the leader's jersey. This decision, which meant extending the "safety zone" to 6 miles (10 km) before the end, was criticized by some riders and team staff.


2007 Tour of California, Stages and results, Stage 4: Seaside to San Luis Obispo
Stage 4 was held Thursday, February 22, 2007. Reigning Olympic and World Champion Paolo Bettini captured Stage 4, the event's longest stage, edging Gerald Ciolek, Juan José Haedo, and Thor Hushovd in a sprint finish after the peloton reeled in a seven-man breakaway consisting of Hilton Clarke (Navigators Insurance), Aaron Olson (T-Mobile Team), Kirk O'Bee (Health Net–Maxxis), Alejandro Acton (Colavita–Sutter Home), Christophe Laurent (Crédit Agricole), Lucas Euser (Slipstream–Chipotle), and Sean Sullivan (Toyota–United).


2007 Tour of California, Stages and results, Stage 5: Solvang time trial
Held Friday, February 23, 2007, Stage 5 was an individual time trial. Yellow jersey holder Levi Leipheimer extended his lead over second place Jens Voigt and the rest of the field.


2007 Tour of Chongming Island Stage race
The 2007 Tour of Chongming Island Stage race was the first women's edition of the Tour of Chongming Island cycling stage race. It was rated by the UCI as category 2.1, and was held between 3 and 6 June 2007, in China.


2007 Tour of Chongming Island Time trial
The 2007 Tour of Chongming Island Time trial was the first time trial running on the Tour of Chongming Island. It was held on 2 July 2007 over a distance of 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) and was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race. 54 elite female cyclists took part in the race.


2007 Tour of Flanders
The 2007 Tour of Flanders cycle race was the 91st edition of this monumental classic and took place on April 8.


2007 Tour of Flanders
The day's break formed at kilometer 29 and included José Vicente García (Caisse d'Epargne), Laurent Mangel (AG2R), Enrico Franzoi (Lampre), Maarten Tjallingii (Skil-Shimano), Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas), Evert Verbist (Chocolade Jacques) and David Boucher (Landbouwkrediet). Shortly after the Berendries climb Fabian Cancellara made a successful move to bridge up to the break and was followed by Gert Steegmans.


2007 Tour of Flanders
The break was caught on the run-in to the Muur van Geraardsbergen and on the Muur the decisive attack came from Alessandro Ballan, who was followed by Leif Hoste. Pre -race favourite Tom Boonen (Quick-Step–Innergetic) could not respond to the attack, perhaps due to his fall earlier in the race that hurt his knees and wrist. Karsten Kroon and Tomas Vaitkus attempted to pursuit the two leaders but could not make it.


2007 Tour of Flanders
The lead duo worked together during the run-in to the finale. Ballan opened the sprint and was overtaken by Hoste, who looked to have won it, but Ballan managed to catch onto his wheel and pass him just before the line. Luca Paolini took 3rd, ahead of Kroon and Gusev. There was no Quick Step-Innergetic rider in the top ten.


2007 Tour of Flanders, Course
The course includes 18 listed climbs and 22 sections of cobblestones:


2007 Tour of Flanders, Course
·	at km 96, WANNEGEMDORP - 400m cobbles·	at km 99, LEDE - 200m cobbles·	at km 100, EINE DOORN - 1700m cobbles·	around km 108, 300m cobbles·	at km 122, LIPPENHOVESTRAAT - 1200m cobbles·	at km 126, PADDESTRAAT – 2400m cobbles·	at km 128, ROBORST - 200m cobbles·	at km 134, (1) Molenberg w/300m cobbles·	at km 137, KERKGATE - 3000m cobbles·	at km 142, VOLKEGEM - 200m cobbles·	at km 143, (2) Wolvenberg·	at km 145, KATTENBERG - 1200m cobbles·	at km 165, (3) Kluisberg·	at km 173, (4) Knokteberg·	at km 180, (5) Oude Kwaremont w/1500m cobbles·	at km 183, (6) Paterberg w/400m cobbles·	at km 188, (7) Kortekeer·	at km 190, MARIABARRESTRAAT - 2100m cobbles·	at km 192, (8) Steenbeekdries w/800m cobbles·	at km 194, (9)


2007 Tour of Flanders, Course
Taaienberg w/800m cobbles·	at km 196, ONDERBOSSENAARSTR - 200m & 300m cobbles·	at km 199, (10) Eikenberg w/1200m cobbles·	at km 203, (11) Boigneberg·	at km 208, HAAGHOEK - 2000m cobbles·	at km 211, (12) Leberg·	at km 215, (13) Berendries·	at km 220, (14) Valkenberg·	at km 226, (15) Tenbosse·	at km 232, (16) Eikenmolen·	at km 241, VESTEN – 700m cobbles·	at km 243, (17) Muur – Kapelmuur w/700m cobbles·	at km 247, (18) Bosberg w/400m cobbles


2007 Tour of Flanders for Women
The fourth Tour of Flanders for Women, a women's road cycling race in Belgium, was held on 8 April 2007. British rider Nicole Cooke won the race in a two-woman sprint with Russian Zoulfia Zabirova. Marianne Vos finished third.


2007 Tour of Flanders for Women
The race started in Oudenaarde and finished in Meerbeke, taking in 11 categorized climbs and three flat cobbled sectors, covering a total distance of 122 kilometres (76 miles). It was the second event of the 2007 UCI Women's Road World Cup.


2007 Tour of Flanders for Women, Race summary
164 riders started the race in Oudenaarde. The early tempo was high as pre-race favourite Nicole Cooke put her Raleigh-Lifeforce team to work. On the Valkenberg, with 39 km to go, Cooke's team mate Karin Thürig went clear and built a 50 second lead by the foot of the Muur van Geraardsbergen. Nicole Cooke bridged the gap to Thürig on the Muur, at 16 km from the finish before breaking clear on the final climb, the Bosberg, but was caught by the chasing group shortly after. Thürig attacked from the six-strong lead group, but was caught again. As Thürig was caught, Cooke launched the decisive attack, which only Zoulfia Zabirova could follow. Cooke easily beat Zabirova in the sprint; Dutch rider Marianne Vos finished third at five seconds.


2007 Tour of Ireland
The 2007 Tour of Ireland took place between 22 August to 26 August. It was the first Tour of Ireland race to take place in fifteen years. The overall classification was won by Stijn Vandenbergh who finished 20 seconds ahead of Marcus Ljungqvist.


2007 Tour of Missouri
The 2007 Tour of Missouri is the inaugural edition of a professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Missouri that made its debut on September 11, 2007 with six days of racing. Run by same organizers as the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour of Missouri is being billed as the third highest profile domestic race in the United States. The Tour is part of the 2006-2007 UCI America Tour and the inaugural 2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour.


2007 Tour of Missouri
The Missouri terrain is not mountainous by California and Georgia standards but expect three of the six stages to be contested on relentless rolling hills. No title sponsor has been announced. The planned course:


2007 Tour of Qatar
The 2007 Tour of Qatar was held from 28 January to 2 February 2007 in Qatar. It was a multiple stage road cycling race that took part over six stages with a total of 715.5 kilometres and is part of the 2006–2007 UCI Asia Tour.


2007 Tour of Siam
The 2007 Tour of Siam was the third and last edition of Tour of Siam, a cycling stage race that took place in Thailand. It began on 20 January in Suphanburi and ended on 25 January 2007 in Phetchaburi. The race was sanctioned by International Cycling Union as a 2.2 race category as part of the 2006-2007 UCI Asia Tour.


2007 Tour of Wellington
The 2007 Tour of Wellington or 2007 Trust House Classic was held from 24  to 28 January 2007 in New Zealand. It is a multiple stage road cycling race that takes place over seven stages with a total of 499.3 kilometres and is part of the 2006-2007 UCI Oceania Tour.


2007 Tour of the Basque Country
The 2007 Tour of the Basque Country was the 47th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country road cycling stage race, taking place from 9 April to 14 April 2007. The race was won by Juan José Cobo of the Saunier Duval-Prodir cycling team.


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 1
9 April 2007 - Urretxu to Urretxu, 139 km (86 mi)


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 2
10 April 2007 - Urretxu to Karrantza, 191.5 km (119.0 mi)


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 3
11 April 2007 - Karrantza to Vitoria-Gasteiz, 173 km (107 mi)


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 4
12 April 2007 - Vitoria-Gasteiz to Lekunberri, 173 km (107 mi)


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 5
13 April 2007 - Lekunberri to Oiartzun, 173 km (107 mi)


2007 Tour of the Basque Country, Stages, Stage 6
14 April 2007 - Oiartzun to Oiartzun (ITT), 14 km (8.7 mi)


2007 Towson Tigers football team
The 2007 Towson Tigers football team represented Towson University in the 2007 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by 16th-year head coach Gordy Combs and played their home games at Johnny Unitas Stadium. They are a member of the Colonial Athletic Association. They finished the season 3–8, 1–7 in CAA play.


2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach
The 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the second round of the 2007 Champ Car World Series Season, held on April 15 on the streets of Long Beach, California.


2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Qualifying results
note: Paul Tracy was injured in practice between Q1 and Q2. Oriol Servia replaced him and drove his backup car in Q2 and will drive in the race.


2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, Attendance
Attendance at the 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was approximately 200,000 people over the race weekend with 100,000 of those fans in attendance for the Champ Car main event. This represented a 10% increase over 2006.


2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (American Le Mans Series race)
The 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the third round of the 2007 American Le Mans Series season. It took place on April 14, 2007.


2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach (American Le Mans Series race), Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350
The 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was the sixteenth stock car race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the first of the season's two road course events. It was held on June 24, 2007 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California before a crowd of 102,000. The 90-lap race was won by Juan Pablo Montoya of the Chip Ganassi Racing team who started from thirty-second position. Kevin Harvick finished second and his Richard Childress Racing teammate Jeff Burton came in third.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Although Jamie McMurray won the pole position, he was passed by Robby Gordon on the first lap. Gordon held the position until the first round of green-flag pit stops, and Carl Edwards took over the first position. He held it for twelve laps until Gordon got ahead of Edwards. At the race's final restart on lap 70, Tony Stewart took over the lead when he passed Gordon, but ceded it to McMurray after Stewart made a pit stop. McMurray slowed on lap 97 as he attempted to conserve fuel which allowed Montoya to close the gap. Montoya got ahead of McMurray for the lead after a seven-lap battle and held it to win the race. There were seven cautions and eleven lead changes by eight drivers.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350
It was Montoya's first win in the Nextel Cup Series, and became the first foreign driver since 1974 to win in the series. After the race Jeff Gordon's lead in the Drivers' Championship was reduced because he, along with his teammate Jimmie Johnson, were penalized for a car infringement. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, 49 points ahead of their nearest rival Ford with twenty races remaining in the season. The race attracted 6.5 million television viewers.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
The 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was the sixteenth of thirty-six scheduled stock car races of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. It took place on June 24, 2007, in Sonoma, California, at Infineon Raceway, one of two road courses to hold NASCAR races, the other is Watkins Glen International. The standard road course at Infineon Raceway is a twelve-turn course that is 2.52 miles (4.06 km) long; the track was modified in 1998, adding the Chute, which bypassed turns five and six, shortening the course to 1.95 miles (3.14 km). The Chute was only used for NASCAR events such as this race, and was criticized by many drivers, who preferred the full layout. In 2001, it was replaced with a 70-degree turn, 4A, bringing the track to its current dimensions of 1.99 miles (3.20 km).


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
Before the race, Jeff Gordon led the Drivers' Championship with 2,392 points, with Denny Hamlin in second and Jimmie Johnson third. Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton were fourth and fifth, and Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. rounded out the top twelve. Chevrolet led the Manufacturers' Championship with 129 points, 47 ahead of their nearest rival Ford in second. Dodge was third on 73 points, and Toyota was fourth on 47. Jeff Gordon was the race's defending champion.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
Several teams chose to temporarily replace their regular drivers with road course ringers. Michael Waltrip Racing replaced Michael Waltrip and David Reutimann with two-time NASCAR Nextel Cup Series champion Terry Labonte and the 1993 24 Hours of Daytona winner P. J. Jones. BAM Racing chose to replace Mike Bliss (who was competing at The Milwaukee Mile) with the 2005 Trans-Am Series champion Klaus Graf, while Hall of Fame Racing replaced Tony Raines with endurance driver Ron Fellows.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
Former SCCA Trans-Am champion Brian Simo was selected by Front Row Motorsports to drive the No. 37 Dodge, while American Le Mans Series and Busch Series East race winner Butch Leitzinger was selected to replace Bill Davis Racing driver Jeremy Mayfield. Brandon Ash attempted to qualify in his self-owned No. 02 car, and endurance racing driver Marc Goossens was entered in the No. 91 Riley-D'Hondt Motorsports Toyota. Scott Pruett announced he would not participate for the Chip Ganassi Racing team due to a scheduling conflict; Former V8 Supercars champion Marcos Ambrose, who was scheduled to drive the No. 47 JTG Daugherty Racing car withdrew.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Background
Rookie of the Year competitor Juan Pablo Montoya made his NASCAR début on a road course after leaving Formula One in 2006, and was considered by several drivers to be a contender to win the race despite no previous experience of driving at Infineon Raceway. Montoya said he hoped to have a chance of winning, and expected his main rival to be Jeff Gordon. After he finished with a top-ten at the previous round (the Citizen Bank 400) Jamie McMurray hoped to continue his momentum into Sonona, and move up in the Drivers' Championship standings.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice and qualifying
Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday race: one on Friday and two on Saturday. The first session lasted 90 minutes, the second 50 minutes and the third 60 minutes. Gordon and Johnson were prohibited from competing in the first practice session and Friday's qualifier because their right-front fenders were deemed too wide by race officials during a pre-event inspection, and both drivers were required to start at the rear of the field for the race. Bobby Labonte was fastest in the first practice session with a time of 77.539 seconds; Robby Gordon was second and Kurt Busch third. Stewart took fourth position, and McMurray placed fifth. Fellows, Edwards, Ryan Newman, Harvick and Kasey Kahne rounded out the session's top-ten fastest drivers. Said, Dave Blaney and Stewart went off the track but continued.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice and qualifying
Fifty-two drivers were entered in the qualifier on Friday evening; due to NASCAR's qualifying procedure forty-three were allowed to race. Each driver ran two laps, with the starting order determined by the competitor's fastest times. McMurray clinched the third pole position of his career, and his first since the 2005 Pennsylvania 500, with a time of 77.521 seconds. He had an advantage because he recorded his lap when weather conditions were cooler. McMurray was joined on the grid's front row by Robby Gordon and had the pole position until McMurray's lap. Earnhardt qualified third, Said fourth and Stewart started fifth.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice and qualifying
Burton, Bill Elliott, Kahne, Newman and Bowyer rounded out the top ten qualifiers. The nine drivers who failed to qualify were Ward Burton, Scott Riggs, Ash, Paul Menard, Brian Vickers, A. J. Allmendinger, Simo, Kenny Wallace and Graf. After the qualifier McMurray said that he was slightly nervous and felt another driver could record a faster lap time, "I definitely felt with Juan and Ryan going out later, I would definitely get beat. I kept telling everybody that. My heart was definitely beating faster this morning when I got up, looking forward to this."


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice and qualifying
On Saturday afternoon in cool weather conditions Montoya was fastest in the second practice session with a lap of 77.591 seconds, ahead of Harvick and Jeff Gordon. Stewart was fourth-fastest; Fellows was fifth and Kyle Busch sixth. Kahne, Elliott Sadler, Bobby Labonte and Edwards followed in the top ten. David Ragan stalled after he spun. Afterward, Edwards and Ragan left the track and flew to Milwaukee Mile to participate in the AT&T 250 Busch Series race; both drivers returned to Sonoma after the race's completion.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Practice and qualifying
Later that day, Hamlin paced the final practice session with a time of 78.219; Stewart was second and Robby Gordon third. Harvick was fourth-fastest, ahead of Sadler and Newman. Fellows was seventh-fastest, McMurray eighth, Johnson ninth and Jeff Gordon tenth. Hamlin was afflicted with an electrical issue which was corrected after his team installed a new distributor. J. J. Yeley damaged his car's sheet metal structure in an accident at turn ten, while Jeff Gordon spun and hit the turn eleven tire barrier and sustained minor damage. Dale Jarrett and Kyle Busch both went off track but did not damage their cars.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Live television coverage of the race began at 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time in the United States on TNT. Around the start of the race, weather conditions were sunny, clear, and breezy. Tina Coleman began pre-race ceremonies with an invocation. Actress and singer-songwriter Emmy Rossum performed the national anthem, and retired football wide receiver Jerry Rice along with Mike Wells of the Northern California Toyota Dealers commanded the drivers to start their engines. No drivers moved to the rear of the field.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
The race started at 5:22 p.m. McMurray maintained his pole position advantage heading into the first corner, while Stewart fell down the field after he ran wide at the second turn but did not damage his car. Robby Gordon and Earnahrdt moved into the first and second positions, as McMurray dropped to third. The race's first caution was prompted on lap two when Goossens, Kenseth and Kyle Petty made contact in the eleventh turn; Goossens was unable to restart his car. Some drivers made pit stops for fuel and tires under caution.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Kenseth and Petty had damage to their cars repaired. Robby Gordon maintained his lead at the lap-five restart, ahead of Earnhardt and McMurray. Three laps later, Earnhardt attempted to pass Robby Gordon at the esses but was unable to complete the manoeuvre. After starting from 32nd, Montoya had moved up into 20th by the 13th lap. Sterling Marlin's engine failed on lap 14, and the race's second caution was issued one lap later because he stopped in turn eight. Some drivers elected to make pit stops during the caution.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Robby Gordon remained the leader for the lap-17 restart, followed by Earnhardt and McMurray. Kyle Busch attempted to pass Montoya in turn eleven but locked his brakes and spun; he avoided contacting the wall but fell to the rear of the field. McMurray passed Earnhardt for second on the following lap. Eight laps later, a brake duct was located in turn four, which triggered the third caution. Robby Gordon led the field back up to speed at the lap-30 restart. Montoya and Johnson made contact on the 32nd lap.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Green-flag pit stops began on the next lap when Earnhardt made a pit stop for tires and fuel. McMurray reclaimed the first position when Robby Gordon made his pit stop on lap 35; McMurray held it for the next lap and succeeded it to Johnson as other lead lap drivers made similar pit stops. Hamlin took over the lead when he out-braked Johnson in turn eleven on lap 37. Stewart took over the lead on the 41st lap when Hamlin made his pit stop. Fellows took over the position on the next lap, before the fourth caution was displayed on lap 44 when a large piece of metal was located at the start-finish line.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Fellows chose to pit under caution, and Edwards led the field at the lap-46 restart; he was followed by Kyle Busch, Reed Sorenson, Jones and David Stremme. On lap 49, Kahne and Bobby Labonte made contact which resulted in Labonte spinning; similarly, Joe Nemechek spun at turn eleven and his rear-end hit the tire barriers, all three drivers continued. Robby Gordon moved back up into second when he passed Kyle Busch three laps later. Jarrett battled with Johnny Sauter for position on lap 53, and both drivers made contact; Jarrett spun in turn four and subsequently stalled.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
The incident prompted the race's fifth caution. Edwards led the field at the lap-56 restart, followed by Robby Gordon. On the same lap, Robby Gordon passed Edwards to retake the lead. The sixth caution was triggered on the next lap when Ragan spun on the chute before entering turn ten; he went through the grass, and was unable to restart his engine. Robby Gordon led the field back to racing speed on the lap-59 restart, followed by Edwards, Kyle Busch, McMurray and Said. McMurray moved up into second position by lap 62 after he passed Kyle Busch and Edwards.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Leitzinger spun into the grass on lap 61, but rejoined the track. On the following lap, Kurt Busch spun sideways in turn eleven after Montoya got into his rear-end and managed to restart his engine despite falling down the order. Sorenson spun off the track, and hit the wall. He continued but spun a second time in turn seven after he clipped a curb which caused the race's seventh (and final) caution. Several drivers chose to pit under caution.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
McMurray and Edwards made pit stops for fuel and tires, while Said stalled which required his pit crew to push-start his car. Jeff Green collided with teammate Sauter on pit road and damaged his right-front fender. Green was observed speeding, but his race ended after his right-front tire caught fire. Robby Gordon elected not to make a pit stop and remained the leader at the lap-70 restart. Stewart out-braked Robby Gordon to take over the lead on the same lap, while Gordon lost a further position to Earnhardt when he was passed in turn eleven. Earnhardt ceded second position when he made a scheduled pit stop for four tires and fuel two laps later. Robby Gordon made a similar stop on the 75th lap, and Stewart did the same which allowed McMurray to reclaim the lead.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Kenseth spun off into the grass on lap 75; he recovered after correcting his car and continued. Nemechek spun a second time at turn eleven but restarted his car on the following lap. By the 86th lap, McMurray led Harvick, Montoya, Kyle Busch and Burton, and the gap between the top three drivers was at 1.3 seconds five laps later. Harvick was passed by Montoya around the inside at turn eleven on lap 92. Five laps later, McMurray reported his car's engine was cutting out at several points around the track.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Montoya made contact with McMurray while attempting to pass him, but McMurray held the first position. Montoya tried again on lap 102 by taking the inside line into turn eleven and momentarily moved in front of McMurray, but ran deep into the corner which allowed McMurray to retain the lead. Two laps later, Montoya passed McMurray around the inside entering turn four to take over the lead. Stewart moved ahead of Jeff Gordon but slid and made contact with Gordon on the 106th lap.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race
Fourth-place runner Edwards ran out of fuel two laps later and drove to pit road; McMurray slowed after running low on fuel. Montoya conserved fuel for the remaining two laps to win his first career victory in the Nextel Cup Series. He became the first foreign-born driver to win in the series since Earl Ross won the 1974 Old Dominion 500, as well as the first Hispanic, and was Chip Ganassi Racing's first victory since October 2002. Harvick finished second, ahead of Richard Childress Racing teammate Jeff Burton in third, Bowyer in fourth and Greg Biffle fifth. Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Said and Hamlin rounded out the top ten finishers. The race had seven cautions and eleven lead changes by eight different drivers during the race.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
Montoya appeared in victory lane to celebrate his first career victory in the Nextel Cup Series in front of the crowd; earning $310,600 for the victory. He said that he was "more relieved than excited" as he was given high expectations that he would perform well in NASCAR. He also stated: "It's huge. I would say right now it's the biggest thing I've done. In open-wheel, that's what I was meant to be winning in. In stock cars, I wasn't. To get our first win in our first year is huge.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
We know we're a little bit behind on some of the ovals, but I think this is a big boost for everybody working in the shop." Harvick, who finished in second, felt Montoya did not have sufficient fuel to reach the race's conclusion: "I've been a big fan of Montoya's since he came over. He's a great road racer, but he wasn't the fastest. The strategy won it for him today." Third-place finisher Burton was happy with his finishing position: "Obviously we worked really hard all last year and this year on fuel mileage and it paid off for us today. It was a good run for us. We ran competitive all race long."


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
Jeff Gordon was happy with the way his race was run: "I thought (crew chief) Steve Letarte and everyone on our team just called this race perfectly to come from that far back to a top 10. We played the (pit) strategy the best way we possibly could and we had some cautions fall our way, which was some good fortune for us to gain some spots." Fifth-place finisher Biffle said his car felt good but felt it was difficult to overtake other drivers.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
Robby Gordon, who led 48 laps (the most of any driver) was disappointed by finishing in 16th position: "Not to make excuses, but we were gonna run out of fuel. It’s disappointing that we had a car as fast as we had, started on the front row, and not just get beat but finish 16th." He said he hoped any problems with his fuel mileage would be resolved by the season's second road course event at Watkins Glen.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
Two days after the race, Hendrick Motorsports was given penalties for Jeff Gordon's and Johnson's cars.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
The penalties, for actions detrimental to stock car racing, car, car parts, components and/or equipment used that did not conform to NASCAR rules, parts or car components not previously approved by NASCAR that were installed or modified to enhance aerodynamic performance, and unauthorized alterations to the car's fender, included a $100,000 fine for crew chiefs Steve Letarte and Chad Knaus who were placed on probation until December 31, 2007, and were suspended from the next six races, and the loss of 100 drivers and owners points for Rick Hendrick, Gordon and Johnson.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
Nextel Cup Series director John Darby said there was flaring on Johnson's and Gordon's front fenders that increased their width by one inch longer than the regulations allowed. On June 28, Hendrick Motorsports announced they would not appeal the penalties, and Johnson and Gordon later stated that they accepted the decision although they felt the penalties were harsh.


2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350, Race, Post-race comments
The result kept Gordon in the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 2,438 points, ahead of Hamlin in second. Kenseth and Burton moved up one positions into third and fourth, while Johnson fell to fifth position. Stewart moved in front of Edwards for sixth, while Harvick and Bowyer remained in eighth and ninth positions. Kyle Busch, Truex and Earnhardt rounded out the top twelve. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship 135 points; Ford remained in second with 86 points. Dodge maintained third position, and Toyota remained in fourth. The race attracted a television audience of 6.5 million people. It took two hours, fifty-six minutes, and eleven seconds to complete the event, and the margin of victory was 4.097 seconds.


2007 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on 4 May 2007. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2011. The Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.


2007 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


2007 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2007 Trail Appliances Autumn Gold Curling Classic was the 30th annual edition of the event. It marked the first Grand Slam event of the Women's World Curling Tour. It was held October 5-9 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta. The total purse for the event was $56,000 with $14,000 going to the winning team of Jennifer Jones, Cathy Overton-Clapham, Jill Officer and Dawn Askin. They beat Shannon Kleibrink's rink in the final.


2007 Trail World Championships
The 2007 Trail World Championships was the 1st edition of the global trail running competition, Trail World Championships, organised by the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and was held in Huntsville, Texas (United States), the 8 December 2007.


2007 Trampoline World Championships
The 25th Trampoline World Championships were held in Quebec, Canada from 31 October to 3 November 2007.


2007 Tri Nations Series
The 2007 Tri Nations Series was an annual rugby union competition between the national teams of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The series began in South Africa on 16 June, with a Test between South Africa and Australia at Newlands, Cape Town and ended on 21 July in Eden Park, Auckland with a Test between New Zealand and Australia. The winners, for the third consecutive year, were New Zealand.


2007 Tri Nations Series
The 2007 series consisted of six matches (two home matches each), three fewer than the 2006 series, because of the 2007 Rugby World Cup which would commence on 7 September. The draw was scheduled to ensure that no team played more than two matches in a row, the early finish allowing each team seven full weeks before the start of the World Cup.


2007 Tri Nations Series
The competition reverted to a nine-Test series from 2008 onwards. Early in 2007, it was thought that there was a chance that Argentina could be admitted to the competition as early as 2008, as it had been reported that the worldwide governing body for rugby union, the International Rugby Board, was brokering a deal for the entry of the Pumas. However, by August of that year, it became clear that the competition would not be expanded while the current media contracts ran; the key contract with News Corporation would not expire until 2010.


2007 Tri Nations Series
The tournament had been put into jeopardy after the Springboks team confirmed they were sending a below strength side for the Australasian leg of the tournament.


2007 Tri Nations Series, Springbok selection controversy
New Zealand and Australian rugby officials considered on the news of the below strength Springbok team, that they might consider scrapping their remaining fixtures against South Africa but cited that because of many arrangements including broadcasting, stadium and ticket arrangements that it might be too complicated. The ARU also retracted proposals to continue the series without the Springboks after SARU sent a medical report, citing a sport scientist saying "they (the Springboks) might as well not bother going to the World Cup" if they send top injured players to the remaining games. The match turned out to be much more competitive than many observers had predicted, with South Africa storming to a 17–0 lead in the first 16 minutes before the Wallabies regained their composure to eventually overrun the Boks 25–17.


2007 Triglav Trophy
The 2007 Triglav Trophy was held between April 18 and 22, 2007. It was an international figure skating competition held annually in Jesenice, Slovenia. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles across the levels of senior, junior, and novice.


2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election
General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 5 November 2007. Nomination day was 15 October. Five parties contested the elections; the ruling People's National Movement, the official opposition United National Congress–Alliance (a coalition of the UNC and six smaller parties), the Congress of the People, the Tobago United Front–Democratic Action Congress (a Tobago-based party) and the Democratic National Assembly (a new party based in Tobago). Five independent candidates also ran.


2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election, Opinion polls
A poll conducted by the Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES) and published by the Trinidad and Tobago Newsday in October 2007 showed the Congress of the People ahead of the ruling People's National Movement by 7%.


2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election, Opinion polls
Another poll from August indicated that the election would be a very close race.


2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election, Results
The PNM party under the leadership of Patrick Manning won 26 of the 41 seats in Parliament. The UNC-A, under the leadership of Basdeo Panday  won the 15 remaining seats. The COP did not win any seats.


2007 Trinidad and Tobago general election, Results, Votes by constituency
The UNC-Alliance did not run for any seats in Tobago.


2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game
The 2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game is best known for the memorable play that occurred in the game's last two seconds. On October 27, 2007, the NCAA Division III 19th-ranked Trinity University Tigers threw 15 lateral passes and scored a 61-yard touchdown to win a game against the 24th-ranked Millsaps College Majors as time expired in the game. Media sources called the play the "Mississippi Miracle" or "Lateralpalooza." ESPN and other sources said the play was probably "the longest play in college football history" in terms of how much time the play took to complete (over one minute). On January 7, 2008, the final play of the game was named the Pontiac Game Changing performance of the year.