Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“Really annoying for the only non World Championship race for women in the year supposed to go out live.”
Hope the farce is not massively damaging to future sponsorship/coverage of the women's races.
I was looking forward to it more than the men's. The promotion of it being a live race, better prize money than for the men, and having the current world champ in a race starting in her home town was looking so good for the female side of the sport.
At least Lizzie 'let' someone else win a race for a change. All part of the strategy for Rio to not go into it red hot favourite, where she would be ganged up on by the other teams like the GB men in 2012.