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DOB: June 29, 1973
Hometown: Queens, NY
Residence: Greenville, S.C. & Gerona, Spain
Height: 6’3”      
Weight: 175 lbs
Strengths: All around
Pro Since: 1994
Hobbies: Tennis

Career Highlights:
(2006) 2nd Prologue Tour de France
(2005) 1st Stage #15 Tour de France
(2005) 2nd Parix Roubaix
(2004) 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
(2001) 1st Ghent-Wevelgem
(2001) 1st  San Francisco Grand Prix
(2001) 4th Paris Roubaix
(1998) 1st First Union USPRO Championships

2008
1st Stage #2 Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage #7 Amgen Tour of California
2nd Stage #4 Amgen Tour of California
2nd prologue Volta a Catalunya
2nd Overall Sprint Classification Three days of De Panne
3rd Stage #5 Tour de Georgia
4th Overall Tour of Missouri
4th Stage #3b Three days of De Panne
4th Stage #3 Tour of Missouri
5th Stage #16 Tour de France
5th Tour of Flanders
6th Stage #3 Volta a Catalunya
8th Stage #4 Tour de France
8th Stage #4 Tour of Missouri
9th Overall Three days of De Panne
9th Paris-Roubaix
10th Stage #20 Tour de France
13th Overall Tour de Georgia
16th Stage #3 Dauphiné Libéré

2007
1st Stage #2 Tour of Missouri
1st Overall Tour of Missouri
2nd USPRO Road Race Championships
3rd prologue Tour de France
3rd Stage #6 Tour de Georgia
4th prologue Dauphiné Libéré
5th Stage #7 Tour de Georgia
6th Stage #5 Tour de France
5th Stage #5 Amgen Tour of California
6th Stage #3 Tour of Missouri
6th Stage #8 Giro d’Italia
7th Stage #19 Tour de France
8th Stage #4 Tour de Georgia
9th prologue Amgen Tour of California
10th Stage #4 Tour of Germany
10th Stage #2 Giro d’Italia
11th Stage #2 Tour de Georgia
12th Stage #15 Tour de France
13th Stage #8 Tour of Germany
13th Stage #3 Dauphiné Libéré
16th Stage #3 Tour de France
17th Stage #2 Dauphiné Libéré
17th Stage #6 Tour of Germany
24th Overall Tour de France

2006
1st USPRO Road Race Championship
1st Stage #4 ENECO Tour of Benelux
1st Stage #2 Tour of California
1st Stage #5 Tour of California
2nd Prologue Tour de France
2nd Prologue ENECO Tour of Benelux
2nd Overall ENECO Tour of Benelux
2nd Stage #4 Thee Days de Panne
2nd Prologue Dauphiné Libéré
3rd Prologue Tour of California
3rd Tour of Flanders
4th Stage #3 Dauphiné Libéré
4th Stage #3 Tour of California
4th Overall Tour of California
5th Stage #1 Tour of California
5th Overall Thee Days de Panne
5th Gent Wevelgem
6th Stage #5 Dauphiné Libéré
7th Stage #4 Tour of California
8th Stage #14 Tour de France
8th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico
9th Clásica San Sebastián
13th Stage #4 Tour de France
15th Stage #3 Tour de France
17th Stage #20 Tour de France
18th Stage #1 ENECO Tour of Benelux
32nd Overall Tour de France

2005
1st GP Ouest Plouay
1st Stage #15 Tour de France
1st Stage #4 Team Time Trail Tour de France
1st Kurne-Brussels-Kurne
1st Prologue Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage #7 Dauphiné Libéré
2nd Paris Roubiax
3rd Overall Points Classification Dauphine Libere
6th Overall Tirreno-Adriatico
7th Tour of Flanders
14th Overall Tour de France

2004
1st Overall Three days of the Panne
1st Stage #4 Team Time Trial Tour de France
1st Overall KBCDriedaagse van DePanne-Koksijde
3rd T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL (San Francisco, CA)
3rd Stage #1 KBCDriedaagse van DePanne-Koksijde
3rd Stage #3 KBCDriedaagse van DePanne-Koksijde
4th Gent-Wevelgem
4th Luk Challenge
5th Overall Paris-Nice
5th GP Eddt Merx
8th Paris-Roubaix
8th Championship of Zürich
10th Ronde van Vlaanderen
10th Prologue, Tour de France
11th Stage #19 Tour de France
13th Milan-San Remo
33rd Overall Tour de France

2003
2nd Stage #7 Volta a Catalunya
3rd Stage #2 Volta a Catalunya
6th Stage #4 Volta a Catalunya
7th Overall Tour of Belgium
8th Stage #19 Tour de France
8th Stage #11 Vuelta a España
8th Stage #5 Volta a Catalunya
10th Stage #4 Tour of Belgium

2002
2nd Classic Haribo (France)
2nd Stage #3b Trois Jours de la Panne
3rd Three Days of De Panne
3rd First Union USPRO Championship
3rd Volta Ao Algarve
4th Ronde Van Vlaanderen
5th First Union USPRO Championship (Philadelphia, PA)
5th Hew Cyclassics Cup (Germany)
6th Paris-Roubaix (France)
9th First Union Invitational (Lancaster, PA)

2001
1st Ghent-Wevelgem (Belgium)
1st San Francisco Grand Prix (San Francisco, CA)
2nd First Union Invitational (Lancaster, PA)
3rd First Union USPRO Championships
3rd Trofeo Luis Puig
3rd First Union Invitational
3rd Stage #2 Vuelta Valenciana
4th Paris-Roubaix
10th Meisterschaft Von Zürich

Notes: In 2006 George became only the fourth American in history to wear the leaders yellow jersey in the Tour de France
next to Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, and David Zabriskie. Other accomplishments include his second place finish in the
2005 edition of Paris Roubaix which represents the best finish ever by an American in this difficult race known as "The Hell of the North."

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