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Geelong Women's Tour - 2.2
Australia, February 22-24, 2005
Photography
Stage 1 - Tuesday, February 22: Time Trial Portarlington, 8km
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Images by John Veage
- Watch out for the mushroom!
- Eventual winner Natalie Bates.
- Judith Arndt looking good in white as the current Road Race World Champ.
- Kathy Watt on the bike that resulted in her relegation to last place.
- Katie Mactier coming back from pneumonia rode well to come 6th.
- Olivia Gollan screams for air at the finish.
- Kathy Watt accepting the yellow jersey but the smile wouldn't last all day.
- Alexis Rhodes takes the U23 Leader’s Jersey after a great ride to second place.
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- Cyclingnews reporter Mikkeli Godfree doin it for the team
- Judith Arndt (Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung) during her time trial
Images by Mikkeli Godfree
- Judith Arndt seconds away from her first race in the rainbow kit as Road World Champion.
- Judith Arndt putting the power down.
- ’03 World Road Champion Susanne Ljungskog sports some unique pedal
- Kate Bates awaits the starter’s orders.
- Kathy Watt explodes out of the gate.
- Katie Mactier rips up the course.
- Santia Tri Kusuma from Indonesian awaits her start
- Natalie Bates accepts flowers for 2nd in the time trial, hours before being given the win after Kathy Watt’s relegation to last place.
Stage 2 - Tuesday, February 22: Criterium Portarlington, 30km
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- UCI Commissaire Jin Shan Zhao explains to Kerry Hall the problems with Kathy Watt’s bike.
- Judith Arndt resplendent in her first road appearance in the rainbow colours.
- The peloton climbs the hill around the back side of the Portarlington circuit.
- Riders pop off the back as the pressure is applied at the front.
- Kate Bates leads Sara Carrigan with sister Natalie tucked in behind.
- Wood comes around Joanne Kiesanowski metres from the line...
- ...and edges out Kiesanowski for the win
- Oenone Wood awaits the photo finish examination which would show her as the winner.
- Grinning Winners - U23 leader Alexis Rhodes, 2nd place getter Joanne Kiesanowski (NZL), winner Oenone Wood and 3rd place-getter Kate Bates .
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- Vickie Burr (Bike NZ) has a stack in stage 2
- Judith Arndt (Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung) leads team mate Oenone Wood with 1 lap to go in the crit.
- Oenone Wood (Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung) just wins
- Oenone Wood (Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung) in yellow after stage 2
Images by Mikkeli Godfree
- Eventual stage winner, Oenone Wood prepares herself for the race.
- Kathy Watt in her borrowed yellow jersey lines up for the start of Stage 2.
- Stewart Doyle on the 1s and 2s.
- Kate Bates put faith in her team today but couldn’t hold off Oenone Wood.
- Kiesanowski (left) gets pipped at the line by Wood.
- Natalie Bates leads sister Kate with two laps to go.
- Arndt does the job for Wood at the bell, with Ljungskog, Kate Bates (obscured), Carrigan and Kiesanowski following.
- Petra Rossner has swapped bike for camera and earpiece this year as manager of Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung.
- Jin Shan Zhao talks to Kerry Hall about Kathy Watt’s bike.
- Zhao taking some happy snaps.
Stage 3 - Wednesday, February 23: Road Circuit Barwon Heads, 77.4km
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- The riders pass the coast
- Michelle Hyland (New Zealand) in the Aussie sunshine
- Sara Carrigan at the front of the bunch
- Johanna Buick (New Zealand) on a lone breakaway
- Oenone Wood heads towards an intermediate sprint win
- The place getters sprint for the line with Mayolo-Pic to the fore
Images by John Veage
- This is where it's at
- Racing along the coast in the Geelong Women's Tour
- The peloton is in there somewhere
- Oenone Wood in the thick of things
- Tilting at windmills?
- The peloton rolls along
- Oenone Wood (centre) passes Kate Bates to take out an intermediate sprint during stage 3
- Tina Mayolo-Pic (centre) gives it everything to hold off Rochelle Gilmore (L) and Oenone Wood (R) for the stage win
- The podium Rochelle Gilmore (2nd), Tina Mayolo (1st) and Oenone Wood (3rd)
Images by Mikelli Godfree
- Oenone Wood gets wired for sound.
- Equipe Nurnberger Versicherung director and previous stage winner at Barwon Heads, Petra Rossner, advises tour leader Wood.
- Natalie Bates getting ready to go in to battle for her sister.
- Kate Bates talks with tour leader, Oenone Wood.
- Bates, Wood and Kelly relaxing before the start.
- Olivia Gollan and Natalie Bates await the start of Stage 3.
- Kate Bates turns off the burners as she takes the third sprint and looks back to check on Wood.
- Tina Mayolo-Pic happy with the win.
Stage 4 - Thursday, February 24: Road Stage Lara, 112.9km
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- The early breakaway
- The peloton approach Mt. Wallace
- Susie Wood (NZl) was first up the hill
- Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel leads Oenone Wood
- Oenone Wood ascends Mt. Wallace
- Susanne Ljungskog ascends Mt. Wallace
- Judith Arndt ascends Mt. Wallace
- No time to look at the scenery
- Refreshing
- Who is number 1?
- Oenone Wood is!
- Letting the bubbly go
- Cheers mate
- Oenone Wood the winner of the Geelong Tour 05
Images by Mikkeli Godfree
- The three breakaway riders stretch their lead.
- Miho Oki the human bike-stand has her gears adjusted before the start.
- Susanne Wood crests Mt Wallace first.
- Kate Bates exhausted after the final stage of the tour.
- The Nürnberger team trailer ...nice.
- The tour winner poses with the UCI commissaire
- Mirjam Melchers-Van Poppel ponders her hard day out.
- The new Dura Ace-SRM cranks sported by the Nürnberger team
Images by John Veage
- Riders took it easy on the early part of the final leg of the tour of Geelong
- The peloton makes its way through the Victorian farming countryside
- Kids at the small Anakie primary school show their support
- The second sprint at Anakie primary school saw Wood get the points over Arndt
- Oenone Wood climbs the Mt Wallace Hill
- Judith Arndt powers up Mt Wallace Hill
- If anything went wrong on the Mt Wallace climb, you were walking.
- Oenone Wood and Susanne Ljungskog sprint for the line
- Stage winner and race winner Oenone Wood shows her teammates where she finished
- The podium: Ljungskog (2nd), Wood (1st) and Melchers-van Poppel (3rd)
- Race winner Wood on the dais
- Race winner Oenone Wood (Nürnberger) sprays the champers
- Wood and Highland spray the champers
Ton Van Bemmelen AA Drink visit Belmont Primary School - February 25
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The day after the Geelong Women's Tour, Ton Van Bemmelen AA Drink members Sara Carrigan, Suzanne De Goede and Kate and Natalie Bates paid a visit to Belmont Primary School in southwestern Victoria. The good looking quartet had the students rapt with excitement as they showed them their bikes, talked about life as professional cyclists, and signed autographs.
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- Sara Carrigan and Suzanne De Goede demonstrate the fine art of taking out a front wheel.
- Sisters Katherine and Natalie Bates hand out flyers from their team, Ton Van Bemmelen AA Drink.
- The Bates sisters prove popular with the littlies.
- Olympic gold medallist Sara Carrigan hounded by little people.
- You got these in a smaller size?
