TakeWorlds3 weeks ago
Kate Courtney's road Worlds debut ended on lap two, 95km from the finish, after a crash on the fastest part of the Mont Royal circuit. One DNF doesn't undo the timeline: four months ago she'd never raced elite road, then won US Pro Nationals on her first try, signed with FDJ United-Suez, and arrived in Montréal a contender.
Courtney was «in the perfectly wrong place, just close enough to see it, not far enough back to react,» she said of the crash. Her Team USA teammate Grace Arlandson, herself dealing with a flat tire, still shepherded her through the closing kilometers. «We will just lick our wounds and come back for more,» Courtney said afterward — not the language of someone questioning the road pivot, but of someone treating it as unfinished business.
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