Olympic Photography - Part IV

Road Day 2 - September 27: Men's road race, 239.4 km

Some support...
The devil shows his face - The race begins
Action early in the race - A Pole and a Brit
The long thin line...
Early laps - Chris Jenner (NZl) and Christophe Cappelle (Fra)
A sea of colour - the peloton early in the race
The peloton - Exit the Park on lap one
Richard Virenque - Leads the French charge on Grand Drive, lap 2
The peloton - In the early laps
Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) - Leads Hayles and Walton
Chris Jenner (NZl) - On the early laps
Scott Guyton (NZl) - On the early laps
Nick Craig (GBr) - Gets out of the saddle
The bunch descend - Queens Park on the third lap
The strain shows - On lap 4
Jazy Fernandez Garcia (Guam) - Off the back early on
The riders - Lap 4 up the Bronte climb
Andreas Kloden and Jan Ullrich - At the rear of the field
Jazy Fernandez Garcia (Guam) - Stops the race
A sign for Jazy - Rider from Guam
The pack - Grouped together on the climb
Czeslaw Lukaszewicz - Canada
The French team - Amass at the front
Christophe Moreau (Fra) - At the top corner in Centennial Park
Jens Voigt (Ger) - Leads the charge
Julian Dean - New Zealand
The Bike Bar - On the hill
Brian Walton (Can) - Solo up the Bronte climb
A Russian and a two Poles - Lead Jan Ullrich
Guatemala's Oscar Pineda - Their sole competitor
The leading trio - On lap 6
The bunch - Roll by on lap 6
Jens Voigt and Viatcheslav Ekimov - Chasing on lap 6
Colombians - Suffer on lap 7
Richard Vireenque - Looks across at Jan Ullrich and Andreas Kloden
Robbie McEwen - Trailed by Oscar Freire
Scott Guyton (NZl) - Grinds up the hill
Lance Armstrong (USA) - Climbing
Crash! - Tyler Hamilton goes down.
Crash! - Riders avoid it.
Crash! - Tyler Hamilton gets back on
Scott McGrory (Aus) - Cheered on
Robbie McEwen (Aus) - Concentrates hard
Stuart O'Grady (Aus) - Out of the saddle
Andreas Kloden - Leads Jan Ullrich, Michele Bartoli and Richard Virenque
Matt White (Aus) - Suffers in the middle of the bunch on lap 8
The leading part - Bunch on lap 8
Lance Armstrong and Robbie McEwen - On lap 8
Laurent Brochard (Fra) - Followed by Yakovlev and Kloden on lap 8
Oscar Freire - Looks back as he rides with the pack
Stuart O'Grady (Aus) - Takes a tight corner
Robbie Hunter (RSA) - On lap 10
Lance Armstrong (USA) - Leads Scott McGrory (Aus) up the hill
The leaders - Ride past the sea front during the race
Andreas Kloden, Jan Ullrich - Lead Michele Bartoli
Flying down - Queens Park descent
Lance Armstrong (USA) - Attacks too late
Scott McGrory (Aus) - Blown
Henk Vogels (Aus) - Blown
German Jan Ullrich - Leading the break
The final break: Jan Ullrich, Andreas Kloeden (Ger) and Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz)
The leaders - With 8 kilometres to go
Andreas Kloden (Ger) - Near the end of the race
Axel Merckx (Bel) - Goes solo with 1 kilometre to go
Jan Ullrich - Raises him arm in triumph
Men's podium: Jan Ullrich, Alexandre Vinokourov and Andreas Kloeden
Marco Pantani (Ita) - Interviewed afterwards
Henk Vogels (Aus) - Interviewed afterwards
The Devil - And Frank Conceicao
Some of the folks - Gathered at Albion Cycles afterward