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Post by scumbuster on Aug 10, 2016 3:58:25 GMT -5
Colombia’s Olympic Committee let cyclist compete without bicycle and water A female Colombian cyclist was left without food and water as she attempted to compete for the nation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. Ana Cristina Sanabria became the first female cyclist to compete for Colombia in the road race of the Olympic Games since 1996. She finished in 40th place, 10 minutes behind the leader. But unlike most her competitors, Sanabria had to use her personal training bike in the race had gone without liquid from the 70km mark of a 130km race. The 26-year-old Olympian, disappointed at the embarrassing lack of provision for her participation called on the governmental sports body Coldeportes to offer more support for women’s cycling in the country to give them a chance of competing against the leading European nations. “Today I had fun and it helped me to see how they race in Europe, it is very different and very professional, but it helped me to learn.” Ana Cristina Sanabria Colombia received many plaudits after the 2012 Olympic Games in London following an 8-medal haul across a range of disciplines. However, already the unbalanced preparations of 147 athletes for this years competition has been highlighted by the case of Sanabria who was left humiliated as not one representative of the COLDEPORTES was present at the finish line of a grueling 170 km trek which took her over 4:01:29 to complete. The gold medal was won by the Dutch Ana van der Breggen, the silver medal went to Sweden’s Emma Johansson and bronze was taken by the Italian Elisa Longo. colombiareports.com/colombias-olympic-committee-let-cyclist-compete-without-bicycle-water/
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Post by ozgringo on Aug 19, 2016 9:03:21 GMT -5
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Post by suba on Aug 19, 2016 9:42:55 GMT -5
It's simple. The UK uses lottery funding to pay our athletes so they can go professional, they then don't need to work as postmen or whatever before trying to get some training in at night. Hence we win lots of medals.
In Colombia any spare cash finds it's way into the pockets of politicians and so the athletes here are all part time whilst they struggle to make a living serving chicken in Kokoriko or somewhere.
Colombia of course puts it down to the UK having lots of money and being able to fund it's athletics program.
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