trail wrote:
stevie g wrote:
Explains why American pros have done so poorly at Kona over the last 15 years, in domestic races they get to draft with impunity.
Starky can't catch a break. He's both biking way too hard off the front and simultaneously drafting with impunity.
Stupidest comment on the internet about drafting. Blaming pros for misbehaving age groupers.
Watched the video feed and in that location with the width of the road no reason to choose to draft. You can always let the train go and ride up the road. Glad to see so many who actually chose to ride an honourable race.
I'm not defending the drafters, but I would say there is a large group of athletes riding legal too.
As for blaming WTC on the marshalling front, well it is never acceptable when there are no marshalls but when did we all lose accountability for ourselves. Just cause someone is drafting in a pack and stealing your Kona slot, it does not make it acceptable to join the train and get on a level playing field of Kona slot stealing. This is exactly why everyone in the pro peloton had to be on EPO in the 90's and 2000's. For them, you either got on EPO and kept your pro contract, or you went back to being a bricklayer in Khazakstan or a factory worker in the US or wherever. I'm not saying that makes it OK, but really at the age group level, WTF are people stealing artificial times for? I thought the entire point of age group sport was to challenge ourselves.
Dev