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"Huge crash, huge crash of Annemiek van Vleuten," added commentator Anthony McCrossan.<\/p>\n
"She's one of the big favourites for the road race as well. She didn't have a good individual time trial and luck is just not going her way," Gilmore said, as the cycling world tried to work out what had gone wrong.<\/p>\n
"I don't know what happened there but she just completely lost it and at the moment she just can't get up. That was a massive crash of Annemiek van Vleuten," McCrossan said.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> 'Sinister' theory behind star's 'shock' appearance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Icon reveals cycling truth after darkest chapter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n READ MORE:<\/strong> Retiring Federer reveals unexpected future plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n "She's in a bad way here."<\/p>\n Gilmore was unsure whether it was rider error, mechanical failure – or both.<\/p>\n "So much power would have been going through the pedals\u2026 she's not happy about that."<\/p>\n Switzerland won the mixed relay with Italy claiming silver and Australia bronze<\/a>.\ufeff<\/p>\n Van Vleuten later tweeted that her front tyre "exploded."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvVleuten\/status\/1572486812983083008<\/a><\/p>\n The highly decorated 39-year-old was already having a tough week in Wollongong after finishing seventh in the elite time trial on Sunday.<\/p>\n Van Vleuten entered that race as one of the favourites.<\/p>\n "I had the feeling it was possible today and I went out of the gate quite hard but I was already behind at the intermediate check so I knew already that I had a shit day," she said on Sunday.<\/p>\n "Afterward, when I look at my power I could see that I didn't have a good day.<\/p>\n "I had the feeling that I was having a good day and then at the intermediate, it was not good. I don't have so much to say. I had a shit day so we don't need to analyse it. It just wasn't possible today."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of world cycling's true superstars is in doubt for Saturday's glamour road race after \ufeffAnnemiek van Vleuten crashed out in spectacular fashion in Wollongong […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240140,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240138\/revisions\/240140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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