2016 Olympic Road Races and Time Trials *Spoilers*

[shouldbeinbed]

Dutch cycling fed says shes 'okay'

 

[HF2300]

BBC confirm van Vleuten conscious and taken to hospital.

 

[Mrs M]

Horrible to watch, hope she makes a good recovery.

 

[Mike_P]

Still hopes she okay - conscious does not mean she does have some nasty injuries.
Presumably no one else crashed - occurred to me that if it was the mens race with the amount of crashes in that Lizzie would have got a medal (assuming she did not crash)

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

There's a picture of her in twitterland lying up in her hospital bed, speaking to someone on her mobile

 

[Justinslow]

Looked like facial impact, terrible crash. Took the corner too fast, running wide, locked back wheel then the front and flipped it? Hope she's ok, didn't look good obviously.

 

[User6179]

There's a picture of her in twitterland lying up in her hospital bed, speaking to someone on her mobile

That is an old picture from a hospital in Italy .

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

That is an old picture from a hospital in Italy .

Ah right, thought it was recent

 

[Crackle]

That descent was beyond dangerous. A scapula, a collar bone and who knows what else.

 

[User6179]

[QUOTE 4404153, member: 45"]She lost the back end, and took the first landing on her back before flipping over. Really hope she's not badly hurt.[/QUOTE]

Yep , looks like her back landed on the Kerb of the ditch .

 

[HF2300]

Looked like facial impact, terrible crash. Took the corner too fast, running wide, locked back wheel then the front and flipped it?.

[QUOTE 4404153, member: 45"]She lost the back end, and took the first landing on her back before flipping over.[/QUOTE]

Yep , looks like her back landed on the Kerb of the ditch .

On this occasion I can't help feeling we don't need the in depth analysis.

 

[Guyincognito76]

That descent turned both races into lotteries. It was a shame as I thought the ascents really added to the race.

 

[AM1]

It was a truly nasty crash, I don't understand why there is no protection for the kerbstones on the apex's of some of those corners, or is that asking to much?

 

[Foghat]

Yes, stopped and jumped off, the coverage continued with the bike behind the american coming through.

Stopped, definitely, but due to the camerabike's momentum and the pilot's obvious reluctance to emergency-brake on the descent with other riders coming down fast behind, this was some way past her, and judging by the fact they had disappeared by the time the Abbott camerabike came through, they must have carried on down rather than going back up.

For those wishing to review the footage, scrolling back through the BBC Player allows that. Head-first into the concrete gutter was a brutal punishment for getting the approach to that right-hand bend all wrong - for some reason she made no attempt to swing out to the outside in order to take the racing line, and was going far too fast for that poor approach line. Difficult to understand why she got it wrong - there was plenty of sightline and distance to make the required swing to the outside in time. Just not concentrating, I guess. Hope she's ok.

 

[AM1]

Stopped, definitely, but due to the camerabike's momentum and the pilot's obvious reluctance to emergency-brake on the descent with other riders coming down fast behind, this was some way past her, and judging by the fact they had disappeared by the time the Abbott camerabike came through, they must have carried on down rather than going back up.

For those wishing to review the footage, scrolling back through the BBC Player allows that. Head-first into the concrete gutter was a brutal punishment for getting the approach to that right-hand bend all wrong - for some reason she made no attempt to swing out to the outside in order to take the racing line, and was going far too fast for that poor approach line. Difficult to understand why she got it wrong - there was plenty of sightline and distance to make the required swing to the outside in time. Just not concentrating, I guess. Hope she's ok.

Absoluty no desire whatsoever to watch that again, once was enough..