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Coming over the top

Match sprinting is all about physics and tactics. It's truly a chess game on wheels that moves and changes very quickly.

 

This French rider is about to teach her Russian counterpart a lesson in how to translate the potential energy of her higher position on the banking into kinetic energy as she accelerates past her towards victory.

 

World Cup of Track Cycling, January 2007, Los Angeles California.

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