I was reading about this earlier and there seemed to be some suggestion that she went off the road but wasn’t seen so was left for some considerable time without attention. I guess it will all come out in due course but even more sad if it was eminently preventable.
I know from the bits I’ve seen during the week that there have been complaints about the course and how “technical” it is in places which the weather has exacerbated.
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i feel quite ill…a waste of a life…but you have to do these things, i guess…
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The weather looks grim in Switzerland today
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Good to see the Dutch riding each other off their wheel to give the others a chance.
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Men’s elite road race WC on BBC
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It was
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So many questions to answer on this crash. Weather was terrible on Thursday, this section of the course is also super fast (I’ve seen comments that riders can do 80-90kph here), helped by really nice smooth tarmac. Another factor could have been that this section is less than 5k from where Muriel lived, she knew the road really well - I know from my own experience that I am far faster on descents which I know well, this leaves far less margin for error. This was a similar situation to Gino Mäder last year, who died on a the Tour de Swiss on a local descent which he trained on regularly. This is now 2 deaths in Swiss road races in 2 years.
The technology to create alerts in the event of a crash is now standard, in this incident, had it been used, there wouldn’t have been an hour delay discovering her - no idea whether it would have made a difference though. I also wonder whether in Junior / lower cat races whether fast descents should be nutralised
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Crash alert tech requires a mobile phone connection, doesn’t it?
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Pog doing a Pog again in the men’s road race
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Why ?
Well a win from popping off the front for over 100km out tends to raise some eyebrows.
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Some of the power numbers flying around for during the attack are impressive. 550W for 8-10 minutes and still getting dropped by Pog, people doing 1000W during the initial attack
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Only a Godiva-esque attack would raise my eyebrows these days 
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Disappointed that the suit isn’t green and there are no rainbow stripes
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I bet that’s the jacket lining
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No Oakleys tucked into his breast pocket 
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9 years old, so not much of a spoiler, just a very weird race. Good to see sport doing non-traditional things at different meets
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Maryland Crawl, origianly a track league race from Maryland, US. They used to do this at track league a lot. Revo Series was essentially an elite track league anyway but I dont believe it ever returned after Covid. Derny racing was huge fun also. We used to go to London Olympic Velodrome a lot to watch.
They have a champions league now, but since me and latterly el niño stopped racing bikes, we’ve not been to watch.
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