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Le Tour du Grand Montréal - 2.1
Canada, May 29-June 1, 2006
Photography
Stage 4 - June 1: Mont-Saint-Hilaire circuit, 115km
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- Edwige Pitel (Pruneaux d'Agen) before the race
- Karin Ruso (Elk Haus No) signs in
- Olivia Gollan (Nobili) signs in
- Sigrid Corneo (Nobili) and Lauren Franges (Victory Brewing) sign in
- The manager meeting before the race
- Walter Zini of Nobili
- Katherine Bates (Nurnberger)
- Kimberly Baldwin and Olivia Gollan with Kristin Armstrong and Annette Beutler in the break
- Kim Baldwin (T-Mobile) and Marta Vilajosana (Nobili) lead Kristin Armstrong (Lipton) as she puts her bottle back
- Kristin Armstrong (Lipton) in the break
- Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile)
- Elisabeth Chevanne Brunel in the break
- Jeremy of T-Mobile looks at the bottles (now what one will she want a black top or a white top bottle)
- Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) wins the final stage
- Trixi Worrack (Nurnberger) looks a bit shell-shocked after her third place finish.
- The top three - Sigrid Corneo (Nobili), Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) and Trixi Worrack (Nurnberger)
- Walter Zini and Sigrid Corneo
- Tour and World Cup of Montreal organizing committee
Stage 3 - May 31: Petite Italie criterium, 50km
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- Hero of the week Rachel Heal crashed hard in stage 2 and is back racing a crit that will finish in the rain. Heal is 6th in G.C.
- Team Nobili
- Jeremiah of T-Mobile and Dennis from Nurnberger star in the team staff race
- The start of the race
- TEAm Lipton’s Grace Fleury and Marie-Caroline Cote drive the pack
- Sigrid Corneo drives around the outside of Liza Rachetto and Annette Beutler
- Alison Shanks of New Zealand
- Kori Seehafer and Ina Teutenberg cornering hard
- Edwige Pitel, Elodie Touffet and Judith Arndt cornering hard
- Riders go through a turn on to the home straight
- Alexandra Le Henaff
- Kim Anderson leads Kori Seehafer and Elodie Touffet
- Grace Fleury leads Lauren Franges and Ina Teutenberg and the peloton
- Judith Arndt Rachel Heal, Oenone Wood in the peloton in the rain
- Elk Haus No rider Helen Kelly riding in the rain
- Elodie Touffet leads the way for Katherine Bates, Kim Anderson and Christine Ruiter
- Katherine Bates eads Kim Anderson and Christine Ruiter
- The peloton with T-Mobile’s Judith Arndt, Nobili riders Olivia Gollan and Miho Oki as well as Team Nurnberger’s Oenone Wood and Trixi Worrack controlling the race to protect their breakaway riders.
- Katherine Bates (Nurnberger) wins the Little Italy crit in the rain
- Katherine Bates (Nurnberger)
- The top three
Stage 2 - May 30: Rigaud circuit, 117.8km
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- Nobili Rubinetteie Menikina Cogeas riders Elodie Touffet and Marta Vilajosana Andreu wait for the start
- Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) grabbed 2nd spot on the day
- The peloton early on
- Nicky Wangsgard (Colorado Premier)
- Oenone Wood (Nurnberger) in the pack early in the race
- Milena Pirola sits in the pack
- Ina Teutenberg (T_mobile) up close
- Grace Fleury (TEAm Lipton) at speed down the hill
- Hand Off - Megan Elliott gets a bottle on the go
- Lisa Sweeney (Colorado Premier Training) up close
- TEAm Lipton directeur sportif Thomas Liese is all smiles
- Ya im going to win today - Nobili rider Olivia Gollan
- Webcor’s Katheryn Curi
- Team Victory Brewing brings back Rachel Heal after her crash
- Marta Vilajosana Andreu gets a bottle from the Nobili team car
- TEAm Lipton’s Kori Seehafer
- Elodie Touffet tries to get away
- Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile) up the hill the first time
- Ina Teutenberg (T-Mobile) wishing for tomorrow's crit in Little Italy
- Elk Haus No rider Annette Beutler attacks the hill
- Olivia Gollan goes up the hill the last time and then drives it home
- Nurnberger rider Katherine Bates goes up the hill
- Olivia Gollan takes stage 2 of the Tour of Montreal in Rigaud, Canada
- A happy Olivia Gollan with Walter Ricci, her directeur sportif
Stage 1 - May 29: Lachine ITT, 11km
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- Kim Anderson (T-Mobile) shows off the newest thing to hit TT racing. Wrist pads that you wear for more padding on a bumpy circuit.
- Kristen Robbins (Victory Brewing) gets ready
- Stage one of the Tour of Montreal even had the dog wanting to see what was going on
- Trixi Worrack (Nurnberger) gets into turn one of the TT
- Christine Thorburn (Webcor) on her way to the overall again this year.
- Lauren Franges (Victory Brewing)
- Liza Rachetto (TEAm Lipton)
- Sigrid Corneo (Nobili Rubinetterie) out of the saddle and powering hard
- Rachel Heal (Victory Brewing) grabbed 5th spot on the day
- Ina Teutenberg (T-Mobile)
- Betina Hold (Webcor-Platinum) just before her crash
- Olivia Gollan (Nobili Rubinetterie)
- Kimberly Baldwin (T-Mobile)
- Edwige Pitel (Pruneaux d’Agen-Bianchi Aliveti Kookai) - the French national TT champion was ninth
- Helen Kelly (Elk Haus No)
- Oenone Wood (Nurnberger) at speed
- The podium - Kori Seehafer (Lipton, 2nd), Christine Thorburn (Webcor-Platinum, 1st) and Kristin Armstrong (Lipton)
- Judith Arndt (T-Mobile) - Germany’s national TT champ
