The Club Robinson resort
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
The Club Robinson resort was used by the team's former incarnation, T-Mobile,
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Team owner Bob Stapleton
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Antti Karava of the Columbia Sportswear company
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
German RR champion Luise Keller
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Stapleton
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Luise Keller and Rolf Aldag
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Aldag is sport director for the team
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Kate Bates, Luise Keller and Emilia Fahlin
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
The women's team at the presentation.
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
The various team directors
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Part of the Columbia-High Road men's team.
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
World TT champion Bert Grabsch,
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
More of the men's team
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
The combined men's and women's team
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Each were the most successful team in the world in 2008,
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Danish champion Linda Villumsen,
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Swedish champion Emilia Fahlin
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Villumsen is hoping for another strong season
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Emilia Fahlin
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Fahlin is the youngest on the team, half the age of Kim Anderson
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Bert Grabsch
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Mark Cavendish
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Swedish rider Thomas Lovkvist
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Marcus Burghardt
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Kim Kirchen finished eighth overall in the Tour, and won Fleche Wallonne.
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Columbia's new climbing machine?
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|
Another non starter vis-a-vis equipment
Photo ©: Shane Stokes
|
|