Any athletes affected by the sabotage @ HAMBURG IRONMAN?

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Hey, do you know of any athletes who were affected by the sabotage at the HAMBURG IRONMAN last Sunday?

It’s just a small gesture and obviously never makes up for the race experience, but we at athletedata thought it might help motivate some of the athletes to get back to training and look ahead: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZXjmZwtOGw/

Having a flat tire was always my biggest fear before races… having several is just absurd.

I feel really sorry for the athletes who’ve put in months/years of work and sacrificed A LOT for this.

Keep going :flexed_biceps:

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Only one, a friend of an internet friend posted about it on Strava. Cost them ten minutes in tube changing, it seems.

Personally and given that nothing can be done about it, I just see ‘mechanicals’ as part of the challenge, rather than get worked up about it. Easy for me to say, you might say, but you get all sorts of challenges in Ironman races so overtime you just have to learn to get on with it.

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A teammate had 4 punctures. First two sealed but not completely and after latter two he had to put in a tube.

Race allegedly effected the freedom of some locals so metal pieces was the obvious modern response.