In the case of Claudia Cretti in 2017 it ended with a disability - she started at the Paralympics in Paris.

I thought Sramkova was much younger...

Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer has died after suffering a serious head injury at the Road World Championships...

must be one of the biggest jumps in the ranking in recent years I believe...     2 weeks ago     today : 2 weeks later      

and another win...   Hope she will not leave Beijing in wheelchair though    

Cogne (ITA) has prevailed over Ulricehamn (SWE) and will replace the World Cup in Nove Mesto (CZE). This means that a total of 10 World Cup races are planned in Italy next season.  

What's worse there is that it took insanely long for anyone to even go there and try to help her....like, nothing happened, at all. She was crying out in pain in the pouring rain and nobody came to help, that was awful. And then someone finally went there....and just picked up her bike to move it away. Come on.

Pointsbet Invitational on this week!    Already a few upsets in the round of 16 with Team McDonald defeating Team Dunstone (not the biggest of the surprises, he took Team Carruthers the distance at the provincial playdowns), Team Asselin defeating Team Carruthers, and perhaps the biggest one Team MacNutt defeating Team Einarson (I will also add that Birchard suffered a knee injury recently and is taking some time off, so Walker is coming in as a replacement)

top athletes are still paid well enough to keep them in the country. that also means that they degrade and wouldn't be good enough for any other country