Photos from mtb World Champs

[sylv]

This past weekend in Les Gets, France.

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French riders went in a blur - and collected the most number of medals

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Liam Killeen was at the front for most of the Under 23 race - but he lost to German Manu Fumic on the last lap

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Ffion Griffiths got a 12th place in Downhill

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Jenny Copnall finished 45th in Elite Women xc - a very muddy race


There are about 175 more here: http://photobucket.com/albums/v141/citadelle/

The read only password to view this album is: lesgets2004

Thanks for looking,

Sylvain

[Snoop Doug]

Muddytastic photos - these look great.

What an eye for the action (and the dirty ladeez )

Impressed

Snoop

[Elliot M]

fantastic photos again sylv

but what's meiraghie's bike doing there?? i thought he was in disgrace?

and whose is the mad green bike?

[sylv]

I saw Filip at the Specialized stand (just briefly, not hanging out and talking to the public), and also in town cruising on a Demo 9. A bit surprising in deed. I overheard the word "endurance racing" so that's what he might turn to now. If he's allowed.

I think the green bike's owned by a Hope mechanic - I'd seen it before somewhere on the web.

It's a pity you can't put captions to the the pics on this site. I did some for singletrackworld though so they might appear there sometime soon.

[sylv]

Just read this on cyclingnews:

"No awards for men at MTB world cup finale

The UCI has announced that it will not hold an awards ceremony for the elite men's category of the overall mountain bike world cup championship when the series winds up in Livigno, Italy this weekend.

The hold-up, says the UCI, is that the Belgian cycling federation has not yet reached a decision regarding Filip Meirhaeghe, who retired from mountain bike racing in July after testing positive for EPO.

At the time of his retirement, Meirhaghe was leading the series. The UCI will award the winner's jersey and trophy for the men's elite category at a later date".