Fiona Kolbinger wins Transcontinental Race

[srw]

She will come under serious scrutiny now, the truth ( whatever it is ) will out.

Perhaps you would like to spell out exactly what your suspicions are? Or are you not brave enough?

There is a subtext to your snide digging that either she is on drugs or has had mechanical assistance. If it's drugs - how exactly would a drug help with an event that is about long-term endurance rather than quick recovery or short-term power? If it's mechanical assistance, how exactly could she cheat when she's in the lead in an event where the organisers are beetling backwards and forwards past you at unpredictable periods and your position is being logged by GPS every couple of minutes?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What a bloody fantastic achievement. I understand she'll be riding PBP like Bjorn. Not sure what her start time is. Just over a week till I ride out to the PBP start. Time has flown since the qualifiers.

 

[steveindenmark]

Ive just been talking to someone in Brest. Fiona will be riding PBP. She will be riding the 600km to the start as a leg loosener

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Oh yes in a real bed with crisp sheets, the sleep of the dead. The first proper sleep after many night of short uncomfortable ones, is the best.

 

[uphillstruggler]

She’s German

It was all down to planning and discipline

Two comments from different sources but more apt than the crazy drug rumour the fella upthread was banding about

Great achievement whether female or male, all credit to her

 

[Seevio]

I have no idea what the duck test is.

Basically, if she weighs the same as a duck, it means she's a witch.

 

[Ivo]

This thread is BTW quite late, here's the thread discussing the TCR from the start: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/transcontinental-race-heads-up.242758/

 

[Rusty Nails]

She will come under serious scrutiny now, the truth ( whatever it is ) will out.

The truth is out there now..... until someone who actually knows anything proves otherwise, and not just an internet forum conspiracy theorist.

 

[ColinJ]

This thread is BTW quite late, here's the thread discussing the TCR from the start: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/transcontinental-race-heads-up.242758/

** cough **

I think Steve knows that, because he started the other thread too!

 

[slowmotion]

What a brilliant cyclist. Relentless, and she smiles too.....

 

[steveindenmark]

An unknown, inexperienced ( in terms of ultra endurance cycling) wins the outright transcon, 124 miles ahead of a highly experienced well known ultra endurance rider, and the winner is a ‘medical student’. Okay whatever. The duck test has been failed.

I see what you are trying to incinuate now.
Well I am all ears. I would like to know how you came to this conclusion. Maybe you know something we dont know.

On the other hand maybe your just a misogynist and cannot stand the thought of women getting the upper hand.

Either way you should put up or shut and we know you cant put up.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

This is really important for women’s sport. Sponsorship and professional salaries particularly. I’ve tried explaining this to my 9 year old daughter but she is just stoked Fiona beat about 200 boys

 

[steveindenmark]

This is really important for women’s sport. Sponsorship and professional salaries particularly. I’ve tried explaining this to my 9 year old daughter but she is just stoked Fiona beat about 200 boys

So she is thinking just the same as every ultra distance woman rider in the world right now. The business aspects will click in, in a few days.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

She's on R4 now

 

[StuAff]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007bvr Fiona at 2:42
It annoys me that a lot of the media reports suggest the whole thing is done, if inadvertently! Fiona put that right here though.