Photographer Matt Cohen went to yesterday's Amigen Tour and took these photos of the race. You can't really pick a better place to hold a bike race than North Beach. At the end of the leg, Ben Jacques-Maynes, Jason Donald (Best Sprinter), Levi Leipheimer (Stage Winner) and Taylor Tolleson (Best Young Rider)......

For most of the day it looked like a total Cinderella story for unknown Jason Donald, but when the very last rider of the 2007 Tour of California (TOC) prologue crossed the finish line Sunday, it was Levi Leipheimer who had tears in his eyes.

A Credit Agricole rider suffers his way up the last 300 meters to the finish line atop Telegraph Hill. Photo from SF_Chris.

Following a ribbon-cutting ceremony and the national anthem, Jean-Marc Marino of team Credit Agricole rolled down the starting chute at 1:00 p.m. sharp and the prologue was on. In a time trial like Sunday's prologue, riders race alone and against the clock rather than against each other en masse. Following Marino, 144 more riders attacked the course at one-minute intervals for the next two hours.