They seemed to indicate broken RD, and on the social media pics there is some wires hanging from the rear of her bike.
I dont think the officials error'd in the officiating of it. The course is fairly simple, the only issues were from athletes who've never previously raced until this year. It's tricky because you ride past the finish each lap up the hill. So you sorta swerve to the left to continue or go straight to the finish. But because the TT was going on and different people were on the course on different laps, they couldn't close off the "turn" section yet, and they simply relied on athletes being able to count. Of course under race stress athletes f up that stuff all the time. I just think if someone is telling me SL is better than another race production because one screwed athletes over, let's also call it when it happens any other time. But I get it the athletes are essentially SL employees out there, "nothing to see here" from that odd timing issue today.
ETA: It was fun to see those 2 battle it out. The kiwi Wilde has some guts to race the way he did after the weekend of crashes. I thought the Norway interview w Blu and Iden was pretty good. They asked Iden what Blu does for fun...."nothing". Blu responded, i wish I could answer the quesetion what do I like to do for fun as "1 swim 2 bike 3 run". Pretty good interview.
He said he did a 27km uphill mountain run at some point in his training, 6k feet climb or something.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
I dont think the officials error'd in the officiating of it. The course is fairly simple, the only issues were from athletes who've never previously raced until this year. It's tricky because you ride past the finish each lap up the hill. So you sorta swerve to the left to continue or go straight to the finish. But because the TT was going on and different people were on the course on different laps, they couldn't close off the "turn" section yet, and they simply relied on athletes being able to count. Of course under race stress athletes f up that stuff all the time. I just think if someone is telling me SL is better than another race production because one screwed athletes over, let's also call it when it happens any other time. But I get it the athletes are essentially SL employees out there, "nothing to see here" from that odd timing issue today.
ETA: It was fun to see those 2 battle it out. The kiwi Wilde has some guts to race the way he did after the weekend of crashes. I thought the Norway interview w Blu and Iden was pretty good. They asked Iden what Blu does for fun...."nothing". Blu responded, i wish I could answer the quesetion what do I like to do for fun as "1 swim 2 bike 3 run". Pretty good interview.
He said he did a 27km uphill mountain run at some point in his training, 6k feet climb or something.
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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