George Bennett wins Amgen Tour of California title

PASADENA >> New Zealand’s George Bennett won his first major cycling championship Saturday afternoon, winning the seven-stage Amgen Tour of California.
The Lotto NL-Jumbo rider stayed with the peloton in the 77.7-mile race from Mountain High to downtown Pasadena and was never threatened to lose the yellow jersey.
Evan Huffman of Northern California won his second stage of the tour. He and six other riders broke away from the peloton early. No rider within a minute of Bennett was in the breakaway.
Bennett took the lad in the WorldTour event, the first time in 12 years the AOC has been on the prestigious UCI calendar, after Friday’s time trial in Big Bear.