UCI World Championships Gallery by Kristof Ramon

: Team Specialized – Lululemon rode to victory in the first ever women’s team time trial at the world championships on a very testing course. Billed as a battle between Specialized-lulemon and Orica-AIS, the race certainly lived up to expectations, with the Australian outfit coming home in second place, while AA-Drink – Leontien.nl rode to 3rd nearly 2mins behind.

: The Lotto-Belisol women on the start ramp

: Orica – Greenedge women riding their way in the team time trial to 2nd place. Judith Arndt (Ger), Shara Gillow (Aus), Loes Gunnewijk (Ned), Melissa Hoskins (Aus), Alexis Rhodes (Aus)

: Team Specialized – Lululemon: World Championettes Charlotte Becker (Ger), Amber Neben (USA), Evelyn Stevens (USA), Ina Teutenberg (Ger), Eleonora Van Dijk (Ned), Trixi Worrack (Ger)

: The Adam Hansen stretch before the Elite Men’s team time trial

: Roelandts reflection of him warming up before the TTT

: Jens Voigt leading the Radioshack-Nissan team towards the finish line

: The Belgian team of Tom Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel, Tony Martin, Peter Velits, Kristof Vandewalle, and Niki Terpstra, beat BMC into second place with Orica-GreenEdge finishing in third.

: There’s no rainbow jersey for the winning TTT team. Instead the team gets “the distinctive logo” for the following year and this is not for only the six riders on that team, it is shared with the entire team. If a rider leaves the team, he does not get to wear the logo.

: Cameron Meyer riding his way to 16th place almost 3 minutes beside winner Tony Martin

: Alberto Contador before the start of the ITT. Contador came in 9th place 2:30 behind Martin

: Taylor Phinney before the start

: Tony Martin warming up

: Taylor Phinney on his way to silver just after cresting the Cauberg (1200 meters and a 5.8% gradient). The future looks extremely bright for the 22yr old

: Tony Martin (Germany) took his second straight time trial world championship title, but it couldn’t have been much closer. He slowed in the final kilometers to beat Taylor Phinney by only 5.37 seconds.

: Luke Durbridge rides his way to 21st place

: Tony Martin (Germany), Taylor Phinney (USA) and Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus) at the post-race winners press conference

: Taylor Phinney’s silver medal

: Evelyn Arys (Belgium) warms up before the Women’s road race

: A bloody Katie Colclough (GB) after a massive crash in the Women’s road race which brought down half the bunch

: Crashed out Kate Chilcott (New Zealand)

: Emilia Fahlin had to abandon the race and is having a hard time coping

: Loren Rowney (Australia) passing the feedzone

: Marianne Vos missing her bottle in the feedzone

: The leading group with one more lap to go which eventually was won convincingly by Marianna Vos.

: Rachel Neylan getting off the ceremony podium after receiving silver followed by world champion Marianne Vos

: 2012 Women Elite World Champion: Marianne Vos

: The Norwegian delegation

: Tom Boonen at the start of the Elite Men’s Road Race

: A common landscape in Holland

: Belgian fans by the roadside

: Mark Cavendish at the front

: Bradley Wiggins raced but did not finish. Great Britain’s best placed finisher was Jonathan Tiernan-Locke who came in 19th. Watch this guy folks. He’s on his way to big things…

: Dries Devenyns has done his job in the front for most of the day and is sheered back to the pits

: Team Belgium at the helm as the race picks up

: Philippe Gilbert on the Cauberg. Gilbert followed Nibali’s attack in the early part of the 1,200-meter climb before launching his own attack that opened up a gap that grew increasingly large as he topped the summit, 1.7 kilometers from the finish line. Gilbert had enough time to celebrate as he rolled in four seconds ahead of runner-up Edvald Boasson Hagen and Alejandro Valverde.

: Philippe Gilbert crossing the line as the 2012 World Championship (seen from a distance)

: John Degenkolb (Germany) devestated with 4th place

: Fresh World Champion Philippe Gilbert being escorted from the podium

: Team BMC very happy with the new World Champion in their ranks to add to their other three on their roster

Robby

Tommeke looks like he slimmed down for the Worlds, looking super lean in these pics.
Pete

Great Pics! The women’s race was pretty full on this year.
Pete

Great Pics! The women’s race was pretty full on this year.
pedr09

Was interesting to see the fuss between Freire and Valverde after the race. Freire said Valverde didn’t stick to the plan to tow him to a sprint finish. Valverde said Freire had failed to hold his wheel on the Cauberg and thought it was better to go after Gilbert and a possible medal for Spain than to wait for Freire and get nothing. After looking at the footage a number of times (and making a few assumptions…), I think Valverde could have gotten much closer to the win had he shadowed Gilbert to the bottom of the Cauberg and then gone with him to a possible man-on-man finish. As it was, when he did decide that Freire was too far off the back and that he had to punch it, he was a long way behind Gilbert, Kolobnev, EBH etc. He did pretty well to finish where he did I think. If Valverde had continued to wait for Freire, I don’t see Freire’s result being any different than it ended up being ie. the bunch Freire was with up the Cauberg and along to the finish wouldn’t have gone any faster with Valverde at the front of it. In the game of chess that was the men’s road race, I think Valverde’s hesitation cost him at shot at the rainbow jersey. So was Valverde a villain in deciding to chase Gilbert and abandon the team plan (Freire) or did he salvage some glory for Spain? Please guys, leave your personal opinions about Valverde out of this (done to death and soooo tedious), I’m interested in the tactical side of this situation and what others think.
- Faz
  
  I completely agree with your summation. Valverde got the podium place for Spain. As for Freire, sure its always nice to get a podium in your final race but sport is cruel and doesn’t always grant fairytale finishes. Freire needed to be with Valverde rather than Valverde be with him.
Ghost

I like the pictures but a shame not see Caleb Ewan in the headline at the top with the other Aussies. Is it because his only a junior he finished second surely he deserves at least some recognition.
Wendy

Great to see some women racers instead of podium girls. :-)
- Anonymous
  
  Agreed, enjoyed the women’s races a lot.
Hubbard

Excellent photos!
http://twitter.com/hmoffatt Hamish Moffatt

Great to see some good coverage of the women’s race. Thanks. Please keep it up.
http://www.facebook.com/aaron.alino Aaron Alino

typo in the caption under the TTT trophy photo: “this is not for onbly the six riders on that team…”
Anonymous

Awesome, great job!

UCI World Championships Gallery by Kristof Ramon

September 25, 2012

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