Professional Cycling Stage Race Gets High Marks From Cities, Athletes,
Sponsors and Fans; 2007 Planning Underway Following Successful First Year

LOS ANGELES, Calif. Cities throughout California are
eager to host the second annual race.

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Amy Johnson from Contra Costa
County finished 2nd in the Cross Country 1K Race Freestyle."
The world's best riders echoed the sentiment, expressing an overwhelmingly
positive experience in California. "I can say now
that it was even better than expected," continued Leipheimer who won the
race's Prologue held in San Francisco.

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Sara Scatini
came in 2nd in the AS Alpine Intermediate race.

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"It's a good indication that all
of the foreign riders were happy with the event. "I have no doubt that the potential is here to grow and develop this
race into a big , big spectacle in both the state of California and the United
States."
Speaking about the importance of establishing races like the Amgen Tour of
California for the overall development of American professional cycling,
Bisceglia said, "The hardest thing for USA Cycling is having your children
leave home.

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"We're coming back in 2007 and already are thinking about ways to make
this event even better," said Shawn Hunter, president of AEG Sports,
presenters of the Amgen Tour of California.1 million to The Wellness Community to support cancer patients.

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But if we can bring this kind of cycling to the U."
In addition to Amgen's partnership with AEG, eight companies joined as
founding partners for the inaugural year: Adobe, ADT Security Services,
California Travel and Tourism, Clif Bar, Health Net, Herbalife, KB Home and
Union Bank of California. A
biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first companies to
realize the new science's promise by bringing safe and effective medicines
from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient.

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Lisa Vuong from San
Francisco came in 1st place in the AS Alpine Intermediate Downhill and
2nd place in the AS Alpine Intermediate Giant Slalom.

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, The recently concluded Amgen
Tour of California , an eight-day professional cycling road race, drew more
than 1.
California resident Floyd Landis (USA) of Phonak Hearing Systems walked
away as the overall champion of the Amgen Tour of California with
El Segundo-based CSC taking the overall team top prize. "We will not rest
until we allow the American riders to have the best event in all of cycling in
their home country. Not only have our 2006 host cities asked us back, but
new cities have also inundated us with requests to come to their areas next
year."
The highest ranking officials from UCI and USA Cycling -- the
international and national governing bodies of the sport -- were on hand in
California to witness the race."
To help ensure the success of the Amgen Tour of California, race presenter
AEG partnered with like-minded companies who have an interest in growing the
sport of cycling while communicating the importance of health and wellness to
California communities.com mehenson@golinharris .

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With preliminary
details of the 2007 route expected in the next 30 to 60 days, race presenter
AEG has reiterated its commitment to building the race into one of the premier
sporting events in the world.

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Aaron
McLain from Fresno came in 3rd in the Cross Country 1K Race Freestyle,
2nd in the Cross Country 4X1K Relay Freestyle and finished in 1st
place in the Cross Country 500M Race Freestyle ."
"We built this race on three objectives: to create a great experience for
riders, the communities and the corporate sponsors," said Bob Colarossi,
managing director of the Amgen Tour of California . It couldn't have gone any
better.
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This year was a giant leap toward achieving that goal. "We are extremely satisfied with
this first year, and the best is yet to come.
"It's very high up on the list. To let our riders grow up, we have to let them leave home and go
to Europe.

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amgentourofcalifornia.
In December 2005, the race's title sponsor Amgen launched the Breakaway
from Cancer initiative."

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Additionally, the company has begun fully developing the 28-acre Millennium
Dome and adjacent property located in the eastern part of London along the
Thames River and will create the O2, a new arena within the 'Dome' and
additional arenas, on a 50-acre site in the heart of Berlin and Sprint Center
in Kansas City, Missouri; stadiums in Bridgeview, Illinois and Harrison, New
Jersey.

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2005 Special Olympics Winter World Games Held in Nagano Japan

Leiweke, President and CEO of AEG."
The 10 host cities for the inaugural race included San Francisco,
Sausalito, Santa Rosa, Martinez, San Jose, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa
Barbara, Thousand Oaks and Redondo Beach."
When asked to compare the California race to those about to take place in
Europe, overall second place finisher David Zabriskie (USA) of Team CSC said ,
"We're going to take a lot of warm clothes [to Europe] and wish this race was
still happening . From
the UCI's point of view, it's good to see this in its first year," said
McQuaid.S.

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A partnership between Amgen, The Wellness Community
and George Hincapie, Breakaway from Cancer is a complementary component of the
race that includes a series of free workshops designed to help people who are
affected by cancer learn about new treatments, side effects, support networks
and educational resources. "Their belief in this race, support of our
vision and commitment to ensuring that this event was a great experience for
everyone involved made this one of the greatest first-year events that I have
ever been a part of.

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Amgen looks forward to our continuing sponsorship of this world class cycling
event.amgen.

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The
first Special Olympics World Games held in Asia drew more than 2,000
athletes and 650 coaches from 80 countries around the world, as well
as thousands of family members, volunteers , spectators and journalists
from every continent. A breakthrough in Internet race coverage,
http: //www. "The cities that we
visited this year are very pleased with the positive effect that the race had
on their communities.
"It looks to be a good race. Coca-Cola Zero, Google, Kendall-Jackson , Prodir and
Voler also supported the race as official partners. With a broad and deep pipeline of potential new medicines, Amgen
remains committed to advancing science to dramatically improve people 's lives.

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The athletes who participated performed exceptionally and brought
home gold, silver and bronze medals.3 million spectators from February 19-26, 2006, setting records in
attendance for any single sporting event in California, as well as for any
cycling event in the U. The inaugural event , which covered 600 miles of
California roadway from San Francisco to Redondo Beach, received praise from
its host cities, teams and sponsors, as well as from the Union Cycliste
International (UCI ), the international governing body of cycling.
In addition to the thousands of fans lining every stage of the race, the
official Web site had 367,000 visitors who registered more than fifteen
million "page views" over the eight days of racing, with the vast majority
enjoying live race coverage provided by Adobe and enhanced by Google
technology. The site continues to be one of the sport's most viewed with fans
logging on for race recaps, statistics and commemorative memorabilia.
"We set out to create an event that will one day rival the Tour de
France," said Timothy J.
"We are delighted with the inaugural Amgen Tour of California," said Kevin
Sharer, Amgen's chairman and chief executive officer.com.com

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Not just good teams here, but the teams have
brought good riders as well, and they're all motivated to do very well.

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Olympics Writers/Sports Editors

NAGANO , Japan----Six Northern
California athletes traveled to Nagano, Japan for the 2005 Special
Olympics World Winter Games February 26 through March 5, 2005., we can keep
our children at home.aegworldwide .

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In Northern California, 14,000 athletes
currently compete in 19 Olympic-style sports. "From the moment I heard about the Amgen
Tour of California, I knew it would be of the highest quality," said Santa
Rosa resident and California Travel and Tourism King of the Mountain
competition winner Levi Leipheimer (USA) of Team Gerolsteiner. Both Pat McQuaid, president of the UCI, and
Gerard Bisceglia , president of USA Cycling, gave high praise to the inaugural
event.

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"Our partners are as vital to the success of this event as the athletes
and host cities," said Hunter. Amgen therapeutics have changed
the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the world in the
fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and other serious
illnesses.

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com. For more information, visit AEG today at http://www .

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The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports
training and competition in a variety of Olympic-style sports for
individuals eight-years -of-age and older with developmental
disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical
fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the
sharing of gifts , skill and friendship with their families, other
athletes, and the community.com provided fans with live text updates, four
channels of live streaming video and continuously updated still photos from
the road. I think it was a great event," added
overall fourth place finisher and winner of two stages George Hincapie (USA)
of the Discovery Channel Professional Cycling Team and spokesperson for the
Amgen Breakaway from Cancer(TM) initiative. "We are also pleased
with the success of our Breakaway from Cancer initiative, which resulted in a
donation of $1. AEG, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Anschutz Corporation, owns or
controls a collection of companies including facilities such as STAPLES
Center, The Home Depot Center, The Manchester Evening News Arena and NOKIA
Theatre Times Square; sports franchises including the Los Angeles Kings (NHL),
five Major League Soccer franchises , two hockey franchises operated in Europe,
management of privately held shares of the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA) and Los
Angeles Sparks (WNBA), the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race, and the
upcoming ING Bay to Breakers footrace taking place in San Francisco May 21st;
AEG LIVE, the organization 's live-entertainment division, is a collection of
companies dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance,
touring and a variety of programming and multi-media production.