Showed up on the TIVO list yesterday so I watched it last night. A couple of things jump out.
First - never, ever, does it cease to amaze me that a group of 6 cyclists 30 seconds down at the start of a 40K bike race cannot catch a solo performer within eyesight. They were still the same 30 seconds behind Loretta at the end. Is it part of ITU tactics that the girls just do not work together? Maybe it has developed that way but Joanna Z. used to tell me that the girls usually simply had no idea how how to work a pace line, or that they would simply refuse to take pulls. Used to frustrate her immensely.
Second - Emma Snowsill is frickin’ fast on foot! Cute, too. 34:01 10K in 90 degree heat, and she was barely breathing hard at the end.