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41st Amstel Gold Race - PT

Netherlands, April 16, 2006

Photography

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Images by Anthony Tan/Cyclingnews.com

Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti

Images by Elmar Krings

Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net

Images by Brecht Decaluwé/Cyclingnews.com

Images by Mani Wollner/www.foto-grafik-satz.de

Pre-race

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  • That was then - the scene yesterday in Maastricht - happy, smiling faces.
  • And this is now - the scene outside Maastricht's Town Hall half an hour before the start of the 2006 Amstel Gold.
  • Journalists and photographers patiently wait for the riders in dreary conditions.
  • Maastricht's Town Hall was the place to be - if you were a VIP.
  • A sea of umbrellas 10 minutes before the start in Maastricht's Grote Markt, but the riders just wouldn't come out of their team buses.
  • Moto drivers take shelter inside Maastricht's Town Hall before a very, very wet day.
  • The spread put on by the race organisers for journos, photographers and VIPs.
  • Michael Albasini (Liquigas) and Bram Schmitz (T-Mobile) lead the breakaway with Erwin Thijs (Unibet.com) on Albasini's wheel; initiating the early move was Frenchman Christophe Moreau (AG2R).
  • The breakaway rolling through the town of Vilt, a few kilometres after cresting the first of three ascensions of the Cauberg.
  • Flat, exposed plains also characterise the Amstel Gold, and with a moderate wind, echelons are sure to form later in the race.

Images by Brecht Decaluwé/Cyclingnews.com

Images by Brian O'Connor

Images by Elmar Krings