9th Women's Flèche Wallonne - CDM

Belgium, April 19, 2006

Photography

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Images by Mitch Friedman/www.mitchophoto.com

• The Colavia Girls at Flèche riding for the USA Nat team
• Still taking it easy
• The pack early on
• A Spanish rider tries to get away
• The pack brings back the Spanish rider
• Peloton still groupé
• USA rider Sima Tripp
• The girls from behind
• Amber Neben rode a good race
• One of the Flexpoint girls
• Claudia Haussler and Oenone Wood of Team Nürnberger
• Sarah Tillotson of the USA
• Sima Tripp
• T-Mobile's Judith Arndt staying out of harm's way
• Olga Zabelinskaia on the attack
• Olga Zabelinskaia all by her self trying to get away
• Cooke riding well
• Amber Neben
• Olga Zabelinskaia on the attack
• The pack spreads out
• And up a climb!
• Nicole Cooke strikes the pose
• The women's podium
• Ina-Yoko Teutenberg still in the World Cup jersey

Images by Brecht Decaluwé/Cyclingnews.com

• Nicole Cooke (Univega) looking rather fresh
• Mirjam Melchers (Buitenpoort-Flexpoint) cools down
• Ouch. This can't be good for you
• A Lotto-Belisol rider finishes
• Where's my team car?
• Marianne Vos (Netherlands) needing a drink
• One of the German team after the finish
• The podium (L to R): Judith Arndt (2nd), Nicole Cooke (1st), and Trixi Worrack (3rd)

Images by Anthony Tan/Cyclingnews.com

• Yeaah! Nicole Cooke (Univega) comes to the line a comfortable winner over Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) and Trixi Worrack (Nurnberger Versicherung) for her third Women's Flèche Wallonne title.
• A hard-earned victory atop the Mur de Huy for Nicole Cooke (Univega).
• Moments after crossing the line, winner Nicole Cooke (Univega) was gasping for air.
• The face of someone in serious oxygen deficit.
• Minutes later, Nicole Cooke (Univega) got to her feet, but still found herself wheezing.
• No one ever said winning was easy.
• Natalie Bates (AA-Drink Cycling Team) found the going tough today, but says next weekend's World Cup in Bern, Switzerland is more to her liking.