Mixed Team Time Trial on BBC at the moment. Love seeing all the teams from random small countries giving it everything. Tahiti currently on the top step of the podium and loving being there.
Interesting concept though, Men’s team of 3 ride the 18k course, when they cross the finish line the Women’s team of 3 start. Time added together at the end.
Watched some of that, nasty crash for Van Vluten (sp?)
I was looking for the junior TTs at the weekend but with the TV blackout there was nothing at all on the Red Button.
Yeah, she confirmed on her own Twitter account, the tyre exploded and caused the crash. She was off to hospital for x-rays, bruised and worried about elbow apparently.
I remember seeing something on Twitter (maybe wasn’t the juniors) and looking to see if it was on the Red Button when the service was disabled due to the funeral but I’ve lost all track of time over the last week/weekend with being away from work then the funeral bank holiday etc.
The timing of the races isn’t great from a viewer’s point of view in Europe.
I see there was a bit of controversy around the travel arrangements for some of the teams. The French sent their men’s team business class and everyone else economy. NZ made their riders pay their own travel costs. Presumably a lot of the NZ team would be racing for teams in Europe. The Irish haven’t sent a team at all.
Ouch, the replay did look like she hit the ground pretty hard. Still not clear if a jammed/dropped chain or something else. Hopefully a speedy recovery for her.