Cycling in the 2012 Olympics (spoilers allowed)

[lovelygamer]

I too love the back stories. I want to know what made this person into an athlete. It also inspired me to do even more in my pursuit of fitness.

I loved the USA story featured today in the road race. Not everyone is born an Olympic athlete! From wall street banker to Olympic cyclist. You go girl (Evelyn Stevens).

The womens road race was great. Hated the rain, and that Stevens didn't get up in that lead pack with Vos. Vos was SO strong for the whole 3.5 hours.

Great race.

[colby]

I too love the back stories. I want to know what made this person into an athlete. It also inspired me to do even more in my pursuit of fitness.

I loved the USA story featured today in the road race. Not everyone is born an Olympic athlete! From wall street banker to Olympic cyclist. You go girl (Evelyn Stevens).

The womens road race was great. Hated the rain, and that Stevens didn't get up in that lead pack with Vos. Vos was SO strong for the whole 3.5 hours.

Great race.

I found it much more fun to watch than the mens race and I'm so glad my NBC feed showed the entire race! I was amazed there wasn't more crashing with how hard the rain was coming down. All of the repeated attacks and response from the peloton, the way the race thinned out the longer it went on, and finally the attack that broke away. I was sad to see the American drop from the pack, but what an awesome finish.

One of the announcers at one point said (I don't recall of which athlete, there are so many that were cross-discipline) "if she were a man, she would be famous." So true.