Popular wisdom was that the end of the Lance Armstrong era would also be the end of Americans' interest in cycling. The fans watching the Amgen Tour of California didn't get the memo: Race organizers are predicting that the event will break its own record as California's biggest sporting event since the '84 Olympics.
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