Because obviously our uteri might fall out, the women's race is half a long (100 laps instead of 200 laps), but yeah, a bit more of a disaster. It's high-speed (pack) racing of single-speed bikes on a track made of cinders. The racers made it three laps before the first crash.
A guy in my program coaches a team and his rider went down in the crash, but got back on. 15 laps later she crashed again, by herself. We later learned that she broke one collarbone in the first crash, and the other one in the second crash. If there was ever a reason to be glad that I am a grad student and thus not eligible to race...
The men's race is truer to form. The teams in contention are comprised of people built like bike riders, and are moving, and have a strategy. What they also need to have is luck and the willingness to be scrubbing cinders out of their skin for months.
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