Windham Day 3 in Photos - UCI World Cup 2012
Downhill Practice
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Cross Country
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 It was pretty warm at Windham; many racers were wearing ice vests in an effort to keep core temps low until the big dance. |
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| Emily Batty had the cool shade of an umbrella boy as well as ice packs down her jersey. |
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| Georgia Gould opened up the Women's race with a massive can of whoop-ass; leading the field by as much as 60 seconds. Sadly, Gould punctured descending on the final lap. She stopped, applied a C02 cartridge to re-inflate her tire, but was forced to run the final climb up into the finish straight... |
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| Only to be passed by her two teammates. That makes it two races in row that bad luck has kicked Gould on the home stretch. And two races that teammate Catharine Pendrel has taken at the closing moments. Some people may view that as poor team dynamics, but for Catharine, it was playing it safe. Anything could have happened at MSA last week--Gould was fading rapidly. And this week, by taking the win, Pendrel sealed up the overall. |
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| It was a heartbreaker for everyone. Even Pendrel admitted that this was not a win she relished. |
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| Elite Men: Fumic out front. Only to have a mechanical. |
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| Kulhavy suffered a physical mechanical: the runs. He was forced to pull out of the race two laps in. |
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| With many of the main threats unable to challenge Stander for one reason or another (Jose Hermida tore a pedal off the spindle on lap one), Stander opted to take the reins firmly in hand. He even had time to do a proper zip up on the jersey as he entered the finishing straight. |
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| Max Plaxton was not keen on the heat and simply did not have the legs he showed last week at St Anne, coming home seventh. |
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| Geoff Kabush was looking more on form here than he did last week. Olympic training taking over? Or just Geoff being Geoff--he's always raced better in North America than he has in Europe. However, Plaxton edged Kabush out by 5 seconds. |
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| Todd Wells locked down fourth place today, showing a return to last year's ability to be a constant podium threat. Wells was patient, and worked his way up the entire race, and then fended off a charging Matthias Fluckiger in the closing lap to secure his position. |
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| Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez of Spain showing appreciation for the fans coming out and cheering the riders on in the heat. |
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| Marco Aurelio Fontana. Best can of Coke ever. |
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| Adam Craig, rocking baggies and a single speed? Evidently, as his World Cup racing career winds down, AC has a few items on his tick list; racing a World Cup on a single speed was one of those things. "Yeah, it was a bit of a tall gear. 2:1 but it was tall." |
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| What's next for Adam Craig? Enduro seems to be suiting him of late in the Oregon Enduro series. And Giant doesn't have a proper enduro racer. Might be that we see Craig swapping out lycra for baggies more often. |
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| Women's Podium, L-R: Marie-Helene Premont (4), Katerina Nash (2), Cahtarine Pendrel (1), Georgia Gould (3), and Lea Davison (5). A full North American podium (although admittedly some big names skipped this race) and a historical team sweep with Luna going 1-2-3. |
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| Pendrel seals up the overall WC with today's win. |
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| Men's podium, L-R: Todd Wells (4), Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (2), Burry Stander (1), Marco Aurilio Fontana (3). Mathias Fluckiger (5). |
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