US Pro Championships – Hamilton and Zabriskie will wear the Stars & Strips
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Road Race – the best team was Garmin-Chipotle with second, third, and fourth, but cannot get the job done as Hamilton wins by an inch.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ Tyler Hamilton edged Blake Caldwell by two-thousandths of a second Sunday to win the USA 
Cycling Professional Road Race championship.
Hamilton and Caldwell finished in 4 hours, 38 minutes, 19 seconds. From the
chase group of three riders, Caldwell’s teammate Danny Pate took third place, 4 seconds back.
Of the 108 athletes who started the race, 44 completed the course. Temperatures remained in the 80s all afternoon, but humidity made it feel like 94 degrees on the road.
Zabriskie wins third straight cycling title by just 5 seconds.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) _ David Zabriskie won his third straight USA Cycling professional time trial championship Saturday.
The 29-year-old rider from Salt Lake City is the only cyclist to win the pro-only event since its inception in 2006.
Zabriskie completed the 20.7 mile event in 40 minutes, 39.40 seconds, finishing 5 seconds ahead of 
the surprise of the day Tom Zirbel of Boulder, Colo.
Christian Vande Velde, also of Boulder and a Garmin-Chipotle teammate of Zabriskie, was third — 10 seconds behind the winner.
Zabriskie finished 12th at the time trial event in the Beijing Olympics. He was pleased with the win, particularly that it came only three months after fracturing a vertebrae in a crash at the Giro d’Italia in May.
The time trial was Zabriskie’s fourth national title. He also won the event in 2004 when both pros and amateurs competed together in the national championships.
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