Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is in Ghent, Flanders, for the first training camp of the year, with the aim of welcoming the new riders to the black and orange team, and having some fun, along with the serious business of preparing for the season ahead.
Day four was to be the day that the team was officially presented to the World, with an invited crowd of sponsors and journalists attending the launch at Ghent’s Monasterium PoortAckere. Each rider was introduced individually, along with the newly designed kit that the riders have been wearing – but not mentioning – all week.
Before the presentation was the small matter of getting everybody’s hair and make-up just right, and posing for plenty of official photographs for use in official team literature.
Team Manager Rochelle Gilmore is first in the make-up chair so she’s ready for the demands of the day
Mayuko Hagiwara waits her turn
A fresh coat of polish for Dani King’s nails
Anna Christian has her hair done ahead of the team presentation
Hair and make-up done, Mayuko poses for some fun shots
Jolien D’hoore is interviewed by Belgian TV channel Sporza for its Road to Rio series
We can see you Elisa! (Hide and seek lessons needed here!)
Sometimes Giorgia Bronzini wishes she was blonde like Anna Christian!
Dani King is very strong, but she doesn’t need to be to lift this year’s Colnago V1-r bike!
Chloe Hosking finishes her Journalism degree soon, this is in lieu of her graduation ceremony!
Giorgia is planning to clean up this season!
“Victory will be ours!” says Emilia Fahlin
Mara Abbott just loves the Campagnolo Bora Ultra wheels that she’ll be using this year!
Audrey Cordon-Ragot is an expert at juggling her nutritional needs with High5 Nutrition
Eileen Roe is very proud to be the first Scottish woman to win the British Criterium title
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting your Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team for 2015!
Rochelle always uses her V1-r to zoom between all those business meetings!
Did they book this hotel just because of the photo-op of this wonderful staircase?
Nettie Edmondson seems to be thinking about adding cyclocross to her track and road skills!
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling was honoured by the presence of Marc Coucke, CEO of Omega Pharma and co-owner of the Etixx-Quick Step WorldTour team
Directeur Sportif Egon van Kessel, with Soigneur Kristof van Campenhout, Mechanic Gerrit Claessens and Wiggle’s Head of Brand Marketing Adam Ryan
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling will be wearing these beautiful shoes from fi’zi:k for a third year
Interviews aplenty for Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s athletes and staff
Orange juice only for Jolien D’hoore and Elisa Longo Borghini with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in two days
Dani is always in demand as she both comes back from injury and looks towards Rio 2016
Amy and Anna are Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s youngest riders
