mag900 wrote:
the 2 norweigans were actively slowing up the rest of the group so i wouldn't characterize what iden and blummenfelt were doing as "trying to make something happen" (unless you call trying to slow everyone else down so stornes could get as far away as possible). i'm not making excuses for why nobody else rode wide and past those 2 but they executed team tactics on the bike as well as you ever will see in triathlon.
At 32.5k Iden and Blummenfelt went for it. This was right before the end of the lap.
The rest of the field just let them bike away.
At T2 the rest of the field had lost 1 minute to Iden and Blummenfelt.
During the bike leg you had four people trying to attack. It was Stornes, Schilling, Iden and Blummenfelt.
The rest just sat there and watches each other.
The way I see it. 4 athletes tried to win, the rest tried not to lose.
This time it paid of to go for it.