UCI World Championships

[prototoast]

Video of Dygert's crash: https://twitter.com/CiclismoInter/st...083138560?s=20

[weisan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62F96V0hp8U

[GregL]

Originally Posted by prototoast

Video of Dygert's crash: https://twitter.com/CiclismoInter/st...083138560?s=20

WOW, that was absolutely terrifying! Fingers crossed that she wasn't seriously injured.

Greg

[jpw]

Originally Posted by GregL

WOW, that was absolutely terrifying! Fingers crossed that she wasn't seriously injured.

Greg

She was lucky not to hit that metal pole. It looked like a softer landing than for Evenepoel. Apparently she's conscious and talking.

[jpritchet74]

sounds like Dygert's injuries are bad.

from Caley Fretz's post on Twitter:
"Photos from the accident show a major wound to Dygert's left leg, skin/muscle damage from mid-thigh down to her knee. Looks like she got bit by a shark. Honestly way too gross to post."

[jpw]

Originally Posted by pritchet74

sounds like Dygert's injuries are bad.

from Caley Fretz's post on Twitter:
"Photos from the accident show a major wound to Dygert's left leg, skin/muscle damage from mid-thigh down to her knee. Looks like she got bit by a shark. Honestly way too gross to post."

Ooch. Sounds like a Wout Van Aert type of leg wound. Left thigh caught the barrier's two bolt heads.

[jpw]

Originally Posted by GregL

WOW, that was absolutely terrifying! Fingers crossed that she wasn't seriously injured.

Greg

https://twitter.com/CiclismoInter/st...083138560?s=20

Left thigh catches the two bolt heads on the top of the barrier at 10 seconds;

[nooneline]

Yikes. You can find pictures of her injury through a twitter search. I don't recommend it.

[jpw]

Originally Posted by nooneline

Yikes. You can find pictures of her injury through a twitter search. I don't recommend it.

That's the worst pro cycling injury I've ever seen. Hopefully it's just a 'degloving' of skin from muscle and bone.

[Elefantino]

Trying not to think of Taylor Phinney and what a leg injury can do to effectively end a world-beating career.

[Beldar77]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

Trying not to think of Taylor Phinney and what a leg injury can do to effectively end a world-beating career.

Yeah this injury is pretty bad hopefully not as bad as Taylor's.

[jpritchet74]

Ya, hopefully more of a WvA injury than a Mini Phinney injury

[72gmc]

Sure looked like some form of mechanical failure. Not sure how she could have ridden that out any better than she did.

[rain dogs]

I know everything is sooooo easy from the couch, but I have to get this off my chest.

How do they decide on the placement of the padded barriers in cycling? Maybe it makes sense but I don't get it. Have you EVER seen a cyclist go straight, dead straight into a corner so that they hit the first 10 meters of barriers?

I haven't. I can only imagine that almost every crash is going to be slightly pre apex to 90+% exiting the corner... and the barriers barely cover the exit.... like 2 meters of the exit of a turn. Why not take all those dozens of first entry barrier pads and place them at the exit where they will be useful?



Does what I'm saying make sense? Or is it like this in all races for a reason I don't understand?

[Nick12]

Oh man.. that looks very painful. It does look like a mechanical with the front wheel.