Open de Suède Vargarda - CDM

Sweden, July 28, 2006

Photography

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Images by CJ Farquharson/WomensCycling.net

• Decorated hay bales at the top of the hill
• Helen Kelly (Elk Haus) leads around an early corner
• "So you're Edita Puckinskaite?" - Olivia Gollan (Nobili Rubinetterie) asks
• Magali Le Floche (T-Mobile) in the breakaway
• Équipe Nürnberger line up
• Nicole Cooke (Univega) takes a drink
• Amber Neben (Buitenpoort-Flexpoint)
• The bunch on the hill
• Nicole Cooke (Univega) in the breakaway
• Susanne Ljungskog (Buitenpoort-Flexpoint) - a great day for her
• The sprint between Cooke and Ljungskog
• Kirsten Wild (AA Drink) leads the bunch sprint
• The race podium - Nicole Cooke (Univega), Susanne Ljungskog (Buitenpoort-Flexpoint) and Monica Holler (Team Bigla)

Images by Robin Hedström

• Team Bianchi Kookai
• Team Norway - one non-blonde
• The Giant team - all the way from China.
• Top Girls Fassa with Italian tricolour Fabiani Luperini, left
• The AA Drink team
• team Univega - with World Cup leader Nicole Cooke, left, and Swiss champion Karin Thuerig, second from right.
• Bigla team bikes huddle together at the start.
• Team Nurnberger
• Monica Holler (Bigla) had never heard the one about the Englishman, the Irishman and teh Scotsman.
• Natalie Bates (AA Drink) leads through a corner
• Eventual winner Susanne Ljungskog (Buitenpoort - Flexpoint) (fourth from left) keeps an eye on things as the bunch takes a corner.