Omega Pharma-Quick Step grabs world team title

 Omega Pharma-Quick Step grabs¹ world team title

THE HAGUE, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- Belgian cycling team Omega Pharma-Quick Step rode to victory in the men's team time trial at the road World Championships in Limburg, the Netherlands on Sunday.

The team, consisting of Tom Boonen of Belgium, Sylvain Chavanel of France, Tony Martin of Germany, Peter Velits of Slovakia, Kristof Vandewalle of Belgium and Niki Terpstra of Netherlands, set the fastest time of 1 hour, 3 minutes and 17 seconds on the track of 53.2 kilometers from Sittard to Valkenburg, with the final climb of the Cauberg. They were the fastest at every time check.

American outfit² BMC was only three seconds behind and had to settle for silver, while Orica-GreenEdge of Australia finished third. Italian side Liquigas-Cannondale became fourth and Dutch team Rabobank ended fifth.

For the first time in history commercial teams rode the team time trial at the worlds. Earlier on Sunday Specialized-lululemon grabbed³ the victory in the inaugural⁴ elite⁵ women's team time trial.

The team trials are the official start of the World Championships cycling. The event will end with the elite men road race on Sunday September 23.

1 grabs   

n.试图抓取，有意抢夺( grab的名词复数 )v.抢先，抢占( grab的第三人称单数 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• The job is up for grabs.Why don't you apply now? 那工作谁都可以争取，你怎么不现在就申请呢？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She grabs a stack of baby photos and thrusts them into my hands. 她抓起一沓婴儿照片塞到我手里。 来自辞典例句

2 outfit   

n.（为特殊用途的）全套装备，全套服装

参考例句：

• Jenney bought a new outfit for her daughter's wedding.珍妮为参加女儿的婚礼买了一套新装。
• His father bought a ski outfit for him on his birthday.他父亲在他生日那天给他买了一套滑雪用具。

3 grabbed   

v.抢先，抢占( grab的过去式和过去分词 )；（尤指匆忙地）取；攫取；（尤指自私、贪婪地）捞取

参考例句：

• He was grabbed by two men and frogmarched out of the hall. 他被两个男人紧抓双臂押出大厅。
• She grabbed the child's hand and ran. 她抓住孩子的手就跑。

4 inaugural   

adj.就职的；n.就职典礼

参考例句：

• We listened to the President's inaugural speech on the radio yesterday.昨天我们通过无线电听了总统的就职演说。
• Professor Pearson gave the inaugural lecture in the new lecture theatre.皮尔逊教授在新的阶梯讲堂发表了启用演说。

5 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。