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Sydney Track World Cup - CDM
Sydney, Australia, May 14 - 16, 2004
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Day 3 round-up
Morning session
The organisers made the morning session qualifiers of the final day at the Sydney track World Cup free to spectators and it seemed to work, producing a decent afternoon turn-out despite the glorious, sunny, 22-Celsius weather outside.
Inside the velodrome, an eventful Madison qualifier saw the Greek team expelled from the race for dangerous riding after one of them took out American endurance rider Jame Carney who was fortunately unharmed by his fall.
Afternoon session
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The women's scratch saw controversy as a Korean rider seemed to take it out, only to be relegated for an illegal move in the final metres.
The women's team sprint showed what happens when you have two very similar and very talented riders in this discipline.
Riders in the Madison put on a spectacular high-speed show of precision riding, with the gold and silver medalists doing it the hard way, taking almost a quarter of the race to anogisingly hack out a lap advantage.
One of the least surprising victories went to the winners in the men's team sprint, a trio of big blokes who'd come halway round the world to put on a display of raw power on six wheels.
Finally, medals were awarded to the event's overall best team, and the the World Cup series champions.
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Photography
Morning session
Images by Mark Gunter
- Jame Carney was unlucky in the Madison qualifying heats today, falling because of dodgy riding by the Greek team, who were subsequently expelled.
- The desperate dash for the last sprint in the first heat of the Madison qualifying round
- The Dutch combined well this morning
Afternoon session
Images by Mark Gunter
- Scratch racers line up ready for the off
- The women's scratch gets under way
- Adrie Visser (Netherlands) was an unexpected scratch race winner - by herself, anyway!
- Australians prepare for the team sprint - Rosalee Hubbard and Rebecca Ellis get ready
- Kathrin Freitag & Katrin Meinke (Germany) pile on the effort in teh team sprint
- The team sprint podium - Rosealee Hubbard & Rebecca Ellis (Australia), Kathrin Freitag & Katrin Meinke (Germany) and Oxana Grishina & Anastasia Chulkova (Russia)
- Russians Oxana Grishina & Anastasia Chulkova prepare to land bronze in the women's team sprint
- Chris Sutton (Australia) slings Mark Renshaw in to the fray
- The Netherlands team executes a handsling
- The Germans team hands over in a sunlit afternoon Madison
- Britain's Downing brothers in action in the Madison
- The Argentine team celebrates winning the Madison
- The British team sprinters - raw power on six wheels
- The British team sprinters celebrate on the podium
- The British team took out the overall event championship
- World Cup series champions Germany wave from the podium
- As the shadows lengthened it was time to end another World Cup
