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Armistead Out of Road Race

A blow to GB’s chances ahead of this Saturday’s Women’s Road Race at the World Championships in the Netherlands with news that Lizzie Armistead has withdrawn due to illness. Armistead, who won GB’s first medal at the London Olympics, taking silver at a rain-soaked Road Race, was set to lead the six-woman squad on the 129km course with that honour likely now to go to Emma Pooley who finished fourth in Tuesday’s Time Trial. The decision not to call up a squad replacement for Armistead will leave the GB team two members down from the maximum of seven as only six had initially been selected. The GB squad will now comprise Emma Pooley, Katie Colclough, Nicole Cooke, Sharon Laws and Nikki Harris.

 

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Laws and Pooley Take Bronze at Worlds

Brits Sharon Laws and Emma Pooley have helped their team, AA Drink-Leontien.nl, take bronze at the Women’s Team Time Trial at yesterday’s opener of the UCI World Championships in Limburg, Holland. It was a swansong for AA Drink, who are disbanding in an increasingly harsh financial climate, and possibly for Pooley too, who has suggested she may now concentrate on academic pursuits. The 34km event, new to the World Championships, was won by Team Specialised in a time of 46:31.63, with ORICA-AIS taking the silver. The Men’s Team Time Trial ended in disappointment for Sky, finishing back in ninth despite the presence of Olympic Gold Medallist Geraint Thomas; the 53.2km event was won by Omega Pharma-Quickstep, with BMC taking silver and ORICA GreenEDGE in bronze.

 

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Pooley Loses Crown

UCI Road World Championships Yesterday (September 20) was not the day for Emma Pooley. At the UCI World Road Cycling time trials in a rain soaked Denmark she failed to defend her time trial world champion position when her rival, Judith Arndt of Germany, raced her way to the win across the  27.8km course in 37:07.38 with Pooley 24.13seconds off position and New Zealand’s Linda Villumsen taking second-place. It was a reversal of fortunes for Pooley who had beaten Arndt by 15 seconds in 2010, making her the first British female time trial world champion.

 

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra Pooley refused to be despondent, saying, “I’m pleased with the result…I’m more of a climber. I would have liked there to have been some kind of seismic activity in Copenhagen, and a mountain to have appeared.”

 

The UCI Road World Championships continue in Copenhagen until Sunday September 15.