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Flat tyre for Tarling.

Yep, constant world records are awful for the sport and it's believability. It's like there is no limit..

Plus she's just an awesome rider, always attacking.

And there's the gold for Brown, one would assume.

Awful TV direction by the way, they're missing everything basically and showing mostly riders far away from the medals...

Labous having the ride of her life!

Kind of, but not that clearly I'd say.

Brown is giving Dygert a very tough time, come on!

Yeah, that's not going to be a medal for Van Dijk. Riejanne Markus must be watching so full of pain now.

Tarling might want to race on 99%, should be enough anyway..

First kilometer and last 5km have a very bad road quality already, that can only get worse in these conditions...

Even Knibb's staff crashes (hard) with her reserve bike, oof.

I'd say she would do that again, but no, that was fall number 3.

Triathlete Knibb going down 2.0.

Triathlete Knibb going down.

Told you she's better than most people think.

I mean, she might not win, but come on, how many guys do you know who can ride 45 km/h in the rain for 17 minutes? I need to sprint my ass off to get there on the flat, let alone keep it up for over a minute

No splits so far It's not going so well yet in Paris, technologically speaking.

It has been quite a work behind the scenes to get them to start here, and even under their country's flag, but it did work. If I'm not mistaken they train somewhere in Europe nowadays, I feel like it's Germany but I'm not sure. It's working though!

Hashimi I'm positively surprised to have seen her made quite some serious progress since she first appeared.

That would be awesome. Barely a year ago I saw her sitting on the road next to my tiny town, where she was watching the Dutch time trial championships whilst being very pregnant, so to say Gave birth 9 months ago, broke her ankle 7 months ago, still walking with a brace around her ankle....it would really be quite something. Dygert should be too strong for everyone, and Vollering probably for Van Dijk, but it'd be so cool (also because I just like Van Dijk so much more than both Dygert and Vollering )

outperforming in qualifying (both individually all-around and in the team standings) seems like quite a surprise?

They'll do a second round of quarterfinals?

Held in the rain on the training field with nobody at all present and consisting of one arrow per athlete, as if the disappointment wasn't big enough

Nagayama refuses to leave after losing.