– I didn’t get the curve right. I slid right into it. It was my fault, Dygert told reporters after the race, according to Cyclingnews.
The reigning world champion went out last and crashed badly in a left-hand bend after 8.8 km, at the Bois de Vincennes, of the 32.4 km race.
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Afterwards, she limped onto the podium to receive her bronze. The crash affected her and spasms from the legs went out into the body.
Danes crashed three times
The crash definitely cost her a silver as she was 0.87 seconds behind Britain’s Anna Henderson. Whether Dygert would have managed to win the gold without the crash, we will never know. She was over 1.30 behind winning Australian Grace Brown.
It was difficult conditions where the rain from the inauguration just continued. Dane Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig crashed three times.
In the men’s class, the favorite Remco Evenepoel, for the first time in the Olympics the men raced the same course as the women, took home his first Olympic gold. On Sunday, he was third in the Tour de France after being just third in the last tempo stage behind Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. On Sunday, Evenepoel was over a minute behind Pogacar, who pulled out of the Olympics after massive fatigue following overall wins in both the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia.
– Every time someone has some questions about us working together as a country or whatever, I think we always try to deliver and do our best, says Evenepoel who was happy that Belgian compatriot Wout van Aert also got to get on the podium.