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Track World Cup 07-08 Round 4 - CDM
Copenhagen, Denmark, February 15-17, 2008
Photography
Race 7 - February 17: Men: Madison, Sprint; Women: Team pursuit, Keirin
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- Final: Young Anna Blyth (Great Britain) won the 7th-12th final.
- Final Willy Kanis (Netherlands) gets the verdict over Reed.
- Final Willy Kanis (Netherlands) smiles before the medal ceremony.
- Willy Kanis (Netherlands) puts the power on with a lap to go with Pendleton working hard on the outside.
- Germany on its way to win.
- The Netherlands took the silver.
- Kévin Sireau (France) begins to celebrate as he crosses the finish line.
- Kévin Sireau (France) celebrates his win.
- Kévin Sireau (France) goes for the long sprint with Hoy a long way off his wheel.
- Chris Hoy before the second race... a packed Sunday programme for the Scot.
- The podium Hoy, Sireau and Vyonokurov.
- Michael Morkov (Denmark) celebrates.
- Michael Morkov (Denmark) hits the front in pursuit of a break.
- Britain's Geraint Thomas and Rob Hayles make the change at speed.
- Peter Kennaugh (100% ME) goes on the attack but has Rasmussen in tow.
- Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) keeps the pace high.
- Alex Rasmussen (Denmark) and Michael Morkov (Denmark) stop for the photographers.
- Legendary Arnaud Tournant wins the Keirin.
- Bauge does the lead out with two to go heats.
- The Japanese riders in their own qualfier.
Race 6 - February 17: International Keirin event
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- Arnaud Tournant (Cofidis) easily wins his heat.
- Chris Hoy on his way towards 15,000 euro first prize'.
Race 5 - February 17: Men: Qualifying: Sprint, Madison; Women: Qualifying: Team pursuit, Keirin
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- Germany go fastest.
- The Ukraine team off the pace today.
- Kévin Sireau (France) looks like he tried quite hard
- Chris Hoy (Great Britain) finished third
- USA's Jennie Reed did a storming ride.
- Pendleton eases her way into the next round.
- Virginie Cueff (France) looks over her shoulder and Pendleton is weighing up the competition.
- Sun Jae Jang (Korea) takes a spill.
- Sun Jae Jang (Korea) came away without harm.
- Sun Jae Jang (Korea) recovered and remounted after a fall in heat two.
- GB complete the sling shot to chase down the Dutch team.
- Australia on the way to lapping the field.
- Denmark in the madison sprint with Poland.
- Colombia change riders at speed.
- Geraint Thomas (GBr) attacks.
- Spain on the move while the USA make the change.
Race 4 - February 16: Men: Keirin, Kilometre TT, Team pursuit, Scratch race; Women: Points race, 500m TT, Team Sprint
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- Jinjie Gong makes it look easy on her way to victory in the 500m TT.
- A disappointing ride from Shanaze Reade , but her best was yet to come.
- Sport hurts... Yvonne Hijgenaar gets up to speed.
- Wongs smiles as she crosses the finish line in the points race.
- Wong happy before the medal ceremony.
- Schmidt, Wong and Cliff-Ryan on the podium for the points race.
- The GB boys with medals and jerseys from the teams pursuit.
- The Danish squad, down to three and going for it.
- Steven Burke hits the front on his debut for the GB senior team.
- The Keirin podium (l-r): Lynch, Hoy and Tournant.
- Tournant congratulates Hoy .
- Hoy on the front with one to go.
- Hoy in pole position behind the derny.
- Pervis almost goes off course at the start of the kilo.
- then gets into gear.
- now Pervis is flying.
- and salutes the crowd .
- Local boy, Michael Faerk Christensen.
- Irelands Paul Healion.
- Chinas Li Wen on his way to bronze.
- Bolibrukh laps up the applause.
- Bolibrukh finishes second but wins the series.
- Ho Ting Kwok leads the break.
- Stroetinga never far from the front in the scratch race.
- Stroetinga celebrates.
- Stroetinga drives the race along at speed.
- Kluge hung on to the world cup series lead to win it outright.
- golden girls Pendleton and Reade.
- the winners podium for the women's team sprint.
- Reade and Pendleton.
- Pendleton and Reade face the union jack for the national anthem.
Race 3 - February 16: Men: Qualifying: Team pursuit, Scratch, Keirin; Women: Qualifying: Team sprint, Points race
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- The GB team had to settle for second.
- The Danish team celebrates.
- The Danes on their way to break the record..
- Hijenaar hangs on to post quickest time for the Dutch team.
- Chris Hoy...clear winner of his heat eases up before the line.
- The men's scratch race.
- Wan Yiu Wong attacks early to win the final sprint.
- Svetlana Paulikaite (Lithuania) rides the curve in Copenhagen.
Race 2 - February 15: Men: Individual pursuit, Team sprint, Points race; Women: Individual pursuit, Sprint, Scratch race
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- Belarusian Lisouski escapes the clutches of the bunch in the points race.
- Irelands Morgan Fox leads the way in his points race qualifier.
- Britain’s Chris Newton safely in the main field during the points race.
- Kazakhstan leads the USA in the main string during the points race.
- Pendleton wins the first heat against Guo in the women's sprint.
- Guo took the second heat.
- Allez les blues.. France on their way to victory, in the team sprint.
- Never say die. The Netherlands go for broke on lap two.
- Ouch that hurts. Arnaud Tournant in agony.
- And they're off. The guns signals the race start for the men's points race final.
- Chris Newton in action during the points race.
- Race winner Pim Ligthart leads the break who lapped the field.
- Rebecca Romero happy with her gold medal in the pursuit.
- Romero on her way to victory.
- Vilija Sereikaite had to settle for silver in the pursuit.
- Escobar rolls back the clock to qualify first.
- Taylor Phinney in space age head gear.
- surprise bronze medal finalist David O'Loughlin.
- Aussie Luke Roberts finished third in qualifying.
- Amazing Escobar - en route to first place in qualifying.
Race 1 - February 15: Men: Qualifying: Team sprint, Individual pursuit, Points race; Women: Qualifying: Individual pursuit, Scratch, Sprint
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