Road Cycling UCI World Championships 2020

[Grassmarket 4,027]

Dygert concious & talking

 

 

[Grassmarket 4,027]

Took a lot of time to confirm this, but it seems that Chloe Dygert is OK after surgery.  Must have bad at the time, reading between the lines.

 

 

 

https://usacycling.org/article/usa-cyclings-official-statement-regarding-dygerts-condition-after-crash-at-world-championships

[heywoodu 15,997]

52 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Took a lot of time to confirm this, but it seems that Chloe Dygert is OK after surgery.  Must have bad at the time, reading between the lines.

 

https://usacycling.org/article/usa-cyclings-official-statement-regarding-dygerts-condition-after-crash-at-world-championships

The knee looked incredibly bad, yes. At least pretty soon after the crash we knew she was 'ok' in the sense that she was conscious and talking to medical personell.

 

So yeah, that's Olympic road race gold for Van der Breggen due to Van Vleuten's horror crash and world time trial title due to Dygert's horror crash (or at least in both cases with big help from the crashes, both Van Vleuten and Dygert were of course not entirely certain yet). Makes one wonder....Olympic time trial gold is the only thing missing in Van der Breggen's career now, should Van Vleuten and/or Dygert even start there? Seems rather risky  

[Gianlu33 5,276]

Zabelinskaia was found positive to covid19 and - obliviously - yesterday wasn't allowed to start the ITT

[heywoodu 15,997]

18 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

BBC Comms were saying she had been mostly training indoors, no race experience all year, so perhaps bike-handling skill levels not all there.  Road quality looked good, so possible hardware issue.

Good chance it was a hardware issue indeed, most likely something with the front tyre. One can have amazing or terrible bike-handling skills, when the front tyre goes at that speed going into a curve like that, you're just a passenger on your own bike, sadly  

[heywoodu 15,997]

Just now, Gianlu33 said:

Zabelinskaia was found positive to covid19 and - obliviously - yesterday wasn't allowed to start the ITT

Wow. I mean, everyone more or less expected she'd test positive again some day, but that's not at all what I expected a year ago  

[heywoodu 15,997]

Syrian guy is looking surprisingly good for someone who - most likely - has incredibly little in terms of infrastructure and facilities.

[dcro 10,210]

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Syrian guy is looking surprisingly good for someone who - most likely - has incredibly little in terms of infrastructure and facilities.

Are you implying there are no roads in Syria?

[heywoodu 15,997]

Just now, dcro said:

Are you implying there are no roads in Syria?

There still are?  

 

No but of course I meant training infrastructure, support, equipment, all that kind of thing

[Grassmarket 4,027]

Think about half the country was fine - the war was mostly in the North up by the Iraqi border.

 

Wind & rain going to be a factor today, could get a surprise winner if someone mid-race gets a bit of luck.