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  • FunkyDunc
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    Crash was bad, it was more the fact she wasn’t moving that is worse 🙁

    crazy-legs
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    Abbott is beginning to pedal squares now, can tell how tired she is. She really deserves this one.

    theotherjonv
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    Do you go full gas and risk blowing up, or with the info from the car measure it a bit to eke your lead out?

    cyclistm
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    Incredible race. Just hope the crash victim is ok, still feel cold from watching that.

    wallop
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    Shitballs – that was horrific.

    chakaping
    Full Member

    So tight!

    theotherjonv
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    they’ll catch her, start pissing about and Lizzie can then fly by……

    RustyMac
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    Caught, so so so unlucky

    BoardinBob
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    Ooft. That’s heartbreaking

    alpin
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    Ouch.

    franksinatra
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    What a cruel support. poor Abbot

    crazy-legs
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    Poor Mara.
    That’s heartbreaking, she really deserved that.

    slimjim78
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    Bloody brilliant race. All we need now is good news from the crash

    CaptainFlashheart
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    What a finish.

    Abbott must be in bits.

    codybrennan
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    Ach.

    Good news soon I hope.

    fifeandy
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    Oh, she’s going to be gutted

    chakaping
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    Winner owes the Italian rider a drink.

    Great race, hell of a finish.

    jakd95
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    A real shame for Abbot, it would have been great to see her make that.

    theotherjonv
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    it’s another where if the Dutch girl hadn’t crashed they’d have been nailed on for G&S

    Brutal sport, physically and emotionally. Hope the girl’s OK.

    atlaz
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    Great finish, hideous crash for Annemiek van Vleuten

    eddiebaby
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    How the **** does Chris Boardman manage to not beat the crap out of his co-commentator?

    chakaping
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    That course has claimed a lot of victims.

    Hopefully all just broken bones, but still that’s a lot of riders’ years over.

    bainbrge
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    Safety in pro cycling is ridiculous. I can think of one death, at least one brain death this year, and at least two other life changing injuries. That descent should never have been on the course.

    vondally
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    Great race
    Terrible crash truly horrible
    Lizzie a great interview and well said.
    Chris Boardman great person

    glasgowdan
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    Where was Lizzies interview?

    theotherjonv
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    Even just haybales on the outside of the corners would have provided a barrier to those huge kerbs, and given the width of those gutters wouldn’t have narrowed the actual road surface much.

    Better safety measures in the Red Bull soapbox derby.

    MrPottatoHead
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    Twitter feeds saying Van Vleuten conscious so hopefully good news – was left feeling sick after that. Great race otherwise – feel so bad for the American but that’s what makes this a great sport.

    mikey-simmo
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    I seriously flinched watching that crash. Those kerbs are horrific. Need some good news but my god she was like a rag doll.

    legend
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    Still got the feed running here, the announcer was just talking about someone being conscious now, so hopefully that’s a good sign

    Klunk
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    so what that race tells us is that if the yank lass had risked more “life and limb” in the decent she would have won gold, a new low for the olympics. I’m out.

    honourablegeorge
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    Any word on the crash? That was properly nasty, just seen it

    RustyMac
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    Annemiek van Vleuten reportedly conscious but on way to hospital

    honourablegeorge
    Full Member

    Ah – just spotted this on twitter

    @sportingintel
    Updates on Van Vleuten to come from Dutch federation. (See @KNWU). She’s conscious & on her way to hospital. twitter.com/KNWU/status/76…
    KNWU

    @KNWU
    Van Vleuten bij bewustzijn vervoerd naar het ziekenhuis voor verder onderzoek. KNWU dokter is bij haar.

    NZCol
    Full Member

    Twitter feeds saying OK
    Properly bad crash in slow mo, not the best advert really is it.

    somafunk
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    That’s a bad crash, she landed very heavily on the kerb with her spine taking the full impact then no movement from her, even by the time the chasing group had passed the scene. I so hope there is good news soon

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    That’s a big relief 🙂

    thecaptain
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    Always worrying when they don’t show a replay, but it sounds like she’s conscious at least. Horrible endo. Great race overall though, as with the men.

    franksinatra
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    The lack of any sort of crash protection on those kerbs and gutters is criminal. Would have been so easy to mitigate against that. as boardman said, if you came off on that descent, you had no chance of finishing the race.

    On a related note, i thought boardman was excellent.

    benp1
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    Anyone know when the MTB is on?

    I saw a bit of the road cycling but there was over 100k to go and didn’t fancy waiting around that long!

    vondally
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    Inter view directly after race with Jill Douglas and Boardman

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