Good point. Maybe as simple as the edge of the wheel holder was sharp and she yanked the bike out at an angle and semi slashed the tire sidewall and it just needed her weight on top to end up blowing
On the part in bold, maybe it is as simple as she can’t do a 3-4 week “biz trip” with family obligations whereas people with kids MAY have more flexibility.
no apologies necessary. Sometimes I am not crystal clear. My spoken English is fine, my written English sucks.
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Agree, but charge world champs rate
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Yes, judging her Instagram post!
I would love a 2 days event in Nice. The crowd would be awesome.
She spent a lot of time in New Zealand and saint moriztz in the last 15 en monthI,I believe kids are not in school yet. So this is not necessarily the issue. It could have been if kids where sick etc when they wanted to travel… but then we would not expect a male not too go on a business trip Because of that.
Gwen was 1 month in new Zealand and her child went to kindergarden there.
Ps IAM sick and tired that she has to mention sky in every interview as it is so forced , but the underlying and important message is moms can do just as well everything than dads.
Totally agree with everything you say but my mindset was responding to Sam being in a league of his own GOAT standing, and that simply isn’t true.
Haug was using tpu tubes. Her stop was 450m after mount line (which itself was v close to pro bike stands). Tyre must have been fine when she checked it etc pre swim. She had a below par swim. I do not know why she didn’t walk it back to T1: surely support (wheel or tyre) there even with main men up the road.
I reckon she may still not be ‘right’ after her amazing Roth. But once those 10+ mins lost she correctly judged it game over. Given T100 Ibiza in 6 days, she is tapered so May go well (see also Matthews after her Hamburg DQ and then #2 in T100 SF).
As for Lee she had a poor (for her) swim: should’ve been front pack and then a lack lustre bike. Called it a day (shortly after I gave her a cheer at ?17k in fact). Biking past she was standing being given support by the roadside: day over. Serious effort required to get her head in the right state this Saturday.
Why does saying her kid motivates her to do well and be better make you sick and tired?
Gwen does it, Vicky Holland did it at the weekend, Betto did it recently.
Jan did it quite a bit but didn’t get rubbished for it. Schoeman did it quite a bit! It is a parent thing not a female thing.
Or maybe Canyon could have Jan review their bikes one by one on his social media?
He still works for them and has millions of followers.
Just saying………
gwen and holland dont do it in every single interview. its not part of their branding strategy.
one can overdo it pushing a message.
for me its about as annoying as the constant norwegian method shite, ok in fairness the Norwegian method shite is much more annoying.
my 2 cents
Just wanted to say that if you’re wondering if we have a top 11 finisher in the picks leaderboard on the Daily Tri present in this thread, well yes we do.
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66th overall myself.
I too believe that the true measure of an athlete is in their presentation skills and adroit public relations… … maybe …not.
The “strong silent type” was eighties bullshit. Athletes are entertainers, and their performance is their craft. Singers, artists, and athletes.
Your post made me check. #6 here 
I hadn’t thought to check. Top 20 of 775? If only my own race results were that good!
Not bad!! I also know #5 in real life. We are the royalty 
When it comes to being a pro in anything being a parent is a disadvantage over those who don’t have kids. Whether it is banking, pro sport, computer programming, the competitors without kids have an advantage. I think in the general population those with kids get an easier ride from everyone in the working world compared to those who don’t (when I was a parent of young kids, I hated when people used to use the “parent card” to get out of doing stuff and dumping it on the rest of the team). In the rest of the world it is understood by companies that concessions have to be made to support parents. In pro sport there are no concessions, and those who are parents get zero pass compared to the rest of the working world and the race clock does not say how many kids you have. Maybe the athletes with kids are just pointing out that inspite of the parenting load that is substantial, they are solidly competiting. I have also had a number of pro triathlete friends (male and female) who put of the parenting option until after their pro careers because they felt it would be too hard. No right path and at the highest level of performance, be it in corporate management, pro sport, or politics, the world is only looking at your performance and they care less about your parenting responsiblities.
Personally I am interested how they manage it. I never took a biz trip longer than 2 weeks in my life, and it is why I left the military when I became a parent, because I felt that long deployments leaving parenting to my partner was not something I wanted to be part of. More power to pro triathletes who are parents, but it is definitely a large disadvantage.
Did anyone comment that there were cars on the Nice bike course during the race?
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