#ATOC2014 – PREVIEW – Amgen Tour of California stage 1: Sacramento › Sacramento (193.1k/120.0m) 

“This is the Tour de France of the United States and we would like to make our sponsor proud,” said Sports Director Nico Verhoeven. “We’ll try to do what we always do. We aim to ride an attacking and attractive race, and hopefully we can bag some results. We always give 100 per cent, but maybe now, as it’s Belkin’s home race, even just a little more.”