a minute agoA wife gets out of competition in cycling because of an incident between her male colleagues
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)A cycling race in Belgium ends in confusion when the leader of the women's race, which reached 10 minutes behind the men, nearly caught up with her colleagues of the opposite sex and put himself at risk by the surveillance devices, writes The Guardian, broadcast Periscope. Swiss biker Nicole Hanselman from the Bigla team [...]
Swiss biker Nicole Hanselman from the Bigla Pro team took over two minutes in the annual Omloop Het Nieuwsblad competition, but she had to be stopped after a hasty request of organisers in order to restore a balance between the two groups.
After being allowed to resume the race, Hanselmann was given a strong blow in the diaper, but it increased speed and ended up in 74th place.
The “was a sad moment for me because I was in good condition, and when the group sees you stopping, they are motivated to catch you”, she said. “We just saw the man race ambulance. I think we've stopped for five or seven minutes, so we've lost our chance of”.
Chantal Blaak, a Dutch cyclist from the Boels Dolmans team won the race. Hanselman, the moment he was banned, described it as a difficult moment through a post in Instagram after the end of the race. Maybe the other women and I were going too fast or the men slowly.
Article translated by Periscope.
