Elite Womens Road Race World Championship, 140kms
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The legs of the Australian cyclists carry a team of near-favourites to the sign-on board...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Friend or foe - who's Lizzie Armitstead pointing her tongue at then..?
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
The USA team are hiding in the shade before the start of a hot afternoon of racing...
The Ducth team have pole position at the start, as befits the nation of the defending champion, Marianne Vos...
Serbia's Dragana Kovacevic is being dropped after just five-kilometres, but she'll rejoin after a slow-down later-on...
Christine Majerus needs a bike fixed before she can go any further...
Mara Abbott needs her bike fixed on the move, it's an important day for USA...
Thailand's Chanpeng has been caught in a crash with none other than Kovacevic who's not haveing a good day out there..!
Abbott's switching to a new bike because the other one couldn't be fixed on the move...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
The 140-rider peloton enters the centre of Florence to experience the stunning Duomo and the massive crowds watching the race...
Incredibly only fifty cyclists are still in contention halfway up the first climb of the day...
Maaike Polspol is the very first escaper of the day - but it's taken over 50-kilometres to achieve...
Team USA immediately swings into gear, quickly chasing Polspol down...
Carlee Taylor leads the race down the main descent on the second lap...
Taylor leads on the way up the next climb too - Australia are as keen as the USA to do well today...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
The USA is once again on the front on lap three, but there's no-one to chase yet...
Lucinda Brand has suddenly attacked with Italy's Noemi Cantale...
Brand continues in a new attack with Italy's Rossella Ratto...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Megan Guarnier leads the chase towards the start of the penultimate lap...
Linda Villumsen is in this group with all the other race-favourites...
Tiffany Cromwell has caught Brand on the steepest hill of the circuit, but she will be caught by the Dutch and American riders...
About 20 women start the last two laps in Florence...
Elisa Longo-Borghini now leads a new escape with Brand again in the move...
Tatiana Antoshino makes a lone attack...
Anna Van der Breggen chases for Vos, with Evelyn Stevens showing for the first time...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Tatiana Cuderzo leads the race up the steepest hill with just over one lap to go...
Armitstead has been dropped on this climb, her day is just about done...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
She's been caught, but Antoshina leads the group towards the penultimate climb of the race...
Cromwell launches an attack, the race is really on now..!
Cantale leads Van der Breggen, Ratto and a Johansson in a new attack - but Vos isn't in it...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Evelyn Stevens attacks on the very last climb, taking Johansson with her and splintering the leaders...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Marianne Vos attacks Johansson to explode the race in the last five-kilometres..!
Vos is giving everything to lose Johansson, but the Swedish rider isn't far behind her at the top of the climb...
World Road Championship - Womens Road Race
Marianne Vos wins the World Road Championship - again..!
Johansson easily beats Ratto for the silver-medal, albeit fifteen-seconds behind Vos...
