 Media Credit: LINDY DUGGER Kodakgallery team cyclist Jamiel Danesh carries his badly damaged bike down Broad Street after the Twilight Criterium men's bike race Saturday. Crashes plagued the final stages of the 80 kilometer men's race.
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 Media Credit: KELLY WEGEL Helene Thomas, 9, and her father Scott Thomas of Athens watch the women's half criterium portion of the annual Twilight Criterium bike race on Lumpkin Street Saturday.
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 Media Credit: LINDY DUGGER Teammates help injured Nature's Path cyclist Gerado Castro stay balanced on his ride down Broad Street.
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 Media Credit: JOSH D. WEISS Mark Hekman, left, smiles as Abercrombie & Fitch team member Marco Aledia, right, congratulates him after Hekman won the men's race at Twilight Saturday night.
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 Media Credit: DANIELLE HUTLAS Cyclists turn the corner of Washington Street to Thomas Street during the women's pro-half race Saturday.
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 Media Credit: JOSH D. WEISS A member of The Freestyle Connection BMX Trick Team grabs some air off a high ramp during their demonstration along College Avenue downtown early in the afternoon Saturday.
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 Media Credit: DANIELLE HUTLAS Cyclists speed down Washington Street during the men's 80-km criterium Saturday night.
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Athens was anything but a sleepy Southern town Saturday night.
With 150 cyclists racing through downtown Athens, a crowd of 30,000 spectators wandering the streets, plus sidewalk bars serving drinks to the masses, there was bound to be trouble.
It came in the form of one of the worst bike wrecks in the history of Twilight. About 70 bikers were thrown off their cycles at one of the trickiest turns in the race (Turn 3, the corner of Washington and Thomas streets). The race had to be restarted, and at the end, first place went to the Abercrombie & Fitch team, second, Kodak Easy Share and third, Jittery Joe's.
The criterium was founded in 1980 by Gene Dixon and is called the "Criterium Not To Miss" by VeloNews. Twilight is the kick-off event to the USA Crits Southeast Series and The USA Crits National Series.
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