Team Columbia Claims Another Sprint Victory

The big news today is the signings of American Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie. Levi as expected signed a two year deal with Team Radio Shack. That brings the total officially signed to five with Sergio Paulinho, Jose Luis Rubiera, Sebastien Rosseler and Gert Steegmans.
George Hincapie, who rode with Lance Armstrong in all seven of Lance's Tour de France wins, signed a two year deal with BMC Racing Team. George rode the past two year with Team Columbia-HTC. Team Columbia's Marcus Burghardt and current world champion Allesandro Ballan have also signed with BMC.

At day 4 of the Vuelta a Espana, Andre Greipel, who was the lead out for Gregory Henderson yesterday, won the stage today for Team Columbia-HTC.
A large pile up near the end of the race, took out about 50 riders. Team Astana's Chris Horner suffered a broken hand and has withdrawn from the race. Also, Astana's Vinnie Vinokourov was receiving stitches in his leg after the race. Race leader Fabian Cancellara was also injured, but will remain in the race.

Stage 4 results:
1 André Greipel (GER) Columbia-HTC 05:43:05
2 Wouter Weylandt (BEL) Quick Step
3 Bert Grabsch (GER) Columbia-HTC
4 Marcel Sieberg (GER) Columbia-HTC
5 Marco Velo (ITA) Quick Step 0:00:09
6 Matteo Tosatto (ITA) Quick Step 0:00:15
7 Adam Hansen (AUS) Columbia-HTC 0:00:22
8 Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) Silence-Lotto 0:00:28
9 Linus Gerdemann (GER) Milram 0:00:33
10 Thomas Rohregger (AUT) Milram
11 Olivier Bonnaire (FRA) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
12 Jesús Rosendo (ESP) Andalucía-Cajasur 0:00:42
13 Mathieu Ladagnous (FRA) Française des Jeux
14 Ryder Hesjedal (CAN) Garmin-Slipstream 0:00:51
15 Christian Knees (GER) Milram

Overall rankings after stage 4:
1 Fabian Cancellara (SUI) Saxo Bank 15:12:38
2 Tom Boonen (BEL) Quick Step 0:00:09
3 Bert Grabsch (GER) Columbia-HTC 0:00:11
4 André Greipel (GER) Columbia-HTC
5 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Slipstream 0:00:12
6 Daniele Bennati (ITA) Liquigas 0:00:16
7 Roman Kreuziger (CZE) Liquigas 0:00:17
8 David Garcia (ESP) Xacobeo Galicia 0:00:18
9 Ivan Basso (ITA) Liquigas
10 Alejandro Valverde (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne
11 Cadel Evans (AUS) Silence-Lotto 0:00:19
12 Philippe Gilbert (BEL) Silence-Lotto 0:00:21
13 Imanol Erviti (ESP) Caisse d'Epargne
14 David Herrero (ESP) Xacobeo Galicia 0:00:22
15 Vasil Kiryienka (BLR) Caisse d'Epargne