Race Start
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The riders came by so fast I left the camera in high speed drive mode and held the shutter down, capturing these in the full glory of 8.5 frames per second. The predictive focus works great, almost all of them were in perfect focus.

Staging Area
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Pictures from inside the staging area. The accessibility to the riders and teams was amazing, with large groups of people crowding around the CSC and Discovery busses to get autographs. Supposedly Lance was there, I heard somebody said that their kid got an autograph.

Miscellanea
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Here's looking at you! Pictures of random stuff while walking around the staging area; before, during, and after the race start.