Rio 2016: Boardman slams road race course

Van Vleuten also congratulated her compatriot Anna van der Breggen on her victory in the race.

BBC commentator Boardman said: “I am angry by this”.

“I think Team GB are going to have some extraordinary performances and I hope that the nation doesn’t lose faith and they get behind the team because it’s going to be a good two weeks of sport”. During the 2012 Summer Olympics she along with Ellen van Dijk, Marianne Vos and Loes Gunnewijk represented her national team, the Netherlands in the Women’s road race at the, which was won by Vos. “She recovered from that and is a really tough lady”. “She’s a phenomenal athlete and this course was designed for her”. We saw that Mara Abbott was getting weaker and we gave it our all.

“Of course if you are riding out front, then maybe you take too much risk, I don’t know”, she said.

In Abbott’s case, it was simply a matter of exhausted legs.

And although Van der Breggen reveled in her success, Van Vleuten wasn’t far from her thoughts. I came up short on the climb.

Some hours later it was revealed that Van Vleuten had suffered three spinal fractures in and a concussion.

The federation added that she was “conscious and speaking”.

She was taken to hospital and put in intensive care. We just want to know she is OK. She finished 23rd in the road race, so a gold here will be an uphill battle, so to speak.

Several men crashed on it in their race Saturday. Among them was Vos, Trixi Worrack and former world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot.

A Dutch cyclist thanked her fans for their support after she suffered a frightening crash during the women’s road race final in Rio on Sunday. I was totally focused on what I do best. She also succeeded in splintering the peloton, pushing a tempo so strong that Vos and Armitstead – the silver medalist at the London Games – slowly dropped off.

The crash put Abbott into the lead by 40 seconds with fewer than 10 kilometers left in the race. “Terrible, it scared me senseless”, she said to the broadcaster.

“It looked pretty bad”, van der Breggen said.

“I can’t imagine being in her shoes right now”.

“It was anarchy out there”, American rider Brent Bookwalter said.