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Sea Otter Classic - D2
Monterey, California, USA, March 21 - 24, 2002
Photography
Images by Rob Karman/www.mtnbikephotos.com
Stage 1 - March 21: Cannery Row crit
- Alison Dunlap shows off her new Luna Chix colours and not-quite-so-new world champion stripes.
- Alison Dunlap gives her famous one handed salute as she takes out the Fatboy crit
- Steve Tilford takes the men's crit.
- Steve Tilford leads the four-rider breakaway
Stage 2 - March 22: Time trial
- Alison Dunlap smiles as she goes for it in the time trial.
- Alison Dunlap looking strong in the TT
- Alison Dunlap adjusts her fork
- Barbara Blatter (Specialized) head down in the TT
- Caroline Alexander also has on-the-fly fork adjustment
- Caroline Alexander gets on with the job in hand
- Caroline Alexander grits her teeth with the effort
- Jimena Florit (RLX-Polo Sport) looking fairly relaxed in the TT
- Chrissy Redden (Gary Fisher-Subaru) climbing hard
- Chrissy Redden (Gary Fisher-Subaru) settles down after the climb
- Bart Brentjens (Giant) out of the saddle and going hard in the TT. Nice lever extensions, Bart!)
- Bart Brentjens grits his teeth against the rain
- Bart Brentjens rides through the lush Spring fields
- Roland Green (Trek-VW) battles the rain
- Roland Green (Trek-VW) - another view of the world champ
- Ryder Hesjedal (Gary Fisher-Subaru) up and dancing
- SeamusMcGrath (Haro) all the way forward on the bar ends
- SeamusMcGrath (Haro) in close-up
Stage 3 - March 23: Short track cross-country
- Caroline Alexander (GB National) leads the pack
- Alison Dunlap (Luna Chix) leads in the short track XC
- Alison Sydor (Trek-VW) took the short-track but is still 25 seconds off Dunlap
- Ryder Hesjedal (Subaru-Gary Fisher) leads the field over a short rise
- Ryder Hesjedal (Subaru-Gary Fisher), Roland Green (Trek-VW) and Bart Brentjens (Giant) were the main contenders in the short track XC
Stage 4 - March 24: Cross country
- Caroline Alexander (GB team) was the strongest of the lead trio in the finale.
- Caroline Alexander leads Barbara Blatter (Specialized) through the singletrack.
- Barbara Blatter (Specialized) felt she did most of the work in the women's race.
- Caroline Alexander follows Blatter, with Dunlap close behind
- Alison Dunlap kept close tabs on her rivals, but just needed to finish with them to take the overall win
- Alison Dunlap rides in the Monterey Spring sunshine
- Bart Brentjens (Giant) leads Roland Green (Trek-VW), but Green proved the stronger
- Roland Green in the singletrack
- Filip Meirhaeghe (Specialized) and Ryder Hesjedal (Subaru-Gary Fisher) battled right to the line for third place
- Ryder Hesjedal shows the effort as he hangs on to Filip Meirhaeghe's wheel
- Roland Green celebrates stage and overall victory as he crosses the line
Other races
March 23: Dual Slalom
- Anne-Caroline Chausson (Volvo-Cannondale) took the number one plate to number one spot in the dual slalom
- Anne-Caroline Chausson displaying her uncanny ability to keep pedalling at unlikely angles
- Cedric Gracia completed a dual slalom dual victory for Volvo-Cannondale
- Cedric Gracia takes to the air to avoid a gang of vicious hay bales
March 24: Downhill
- Eric Carter (Mongoose) takes the air in the downhill
- Eric Carter gets on down
- Cedric Gracia (Volvo-Cannondale) gets airborne off one of the course's many jumps
- Nathan Rennie (Yeti-Pearl Izumi) considers a landing spot
- Nathan Rennie safely down, heading for the finish
- Anne-Caroline Chausson (Volvo-Cannondale) took yet another gravity event in the downhill
- Anne-Caroline Chausson concentrates on the target - the finish
- Maxine Irving (Turner-Romic) in flight
- Tai-Lee Muxlow (Dirt Works Australia) gets some sideways air
Some additioonal images by Jonathan Devich/TheFastrack.com
- Anne-Caroline Chausson (Volvo-Cannondale) on her way to another dual slalom win.
- Cedric Gracia (Volvo-Cannondale) battles Mike King to make it into the final heat.
- Mike King slips a foot off a pedal on his way to an expected win in the dual slalom.
- A rider stacks it in the mountain cross.
