Dan Connelly <d_j_c_o_n_n_e_l@i_e_e_e.o_r_g> wrote:
> Kurgan Gringioni wrote:
>> 44 years old and off the front at Worlds.
> Wasn't she the French alternate?
>> Where are the Masters Fatties?
> Maybe Karen Brems and Linda Jackson should be there, too
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Linda Jackson was there. In the peloton.
On a motorcycle. With a microphone.
Right about the time I was concluding that I couldn't figure out the US strategy she abandoned the
bike for the main broadcast booth and said that she didn't understand the US strategy. The US team
put out a lot of effort early in the race and neither Linda nor I could see the point.
I'm not sure what to make of the Women's RR. The way it played out it could have been any one of
billions of US industrial park crits where everyone rides in circles until the end when it gets fast
for the sprint. I think the small teams play a role in this in that there are more tactical options
when there are up to 12 to a team rather than a maximum of 6. A rider like Ljungskog has only one
teammate so she really only has the option to ride the race she did to win.
The other side of that is that there are few nations with the depth to provide 12 riders with the
ability to ride at that level. It isn't an easy question.
Bob Schwartz
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