FULL VIEW -Van Vleuten's freak CRASH -2022 World Championships - What really happened
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The Netherlands' hopes of a gold medal in the 2022 World Championships Mixed Relay Team Time Trial went up in smoke just moments after the trio of women rolled down the ramp. After just 22 pedal strokes - 11 full revolutions of her cranks - Annemiek van Vleuten came crashing down in a seemingly unprovoked crash.
Props to the rider behind her who managed to stay up
Wow, what a save 👌
It's Ellen van Dijk. She's won 6 out of the 7 time trials in 2022, including the WC just a couple of days prior. She's quite decent!
why did she decide to do that? fixing within the sport?
And then today, won the world championship for the Womens RR. That's how you bounce back. Annemeik the GOAT 🚴♀️
Annemiek's chain slipped off of the big ring onto the small one, throwing her balance off immediately. She didn't shift intentionally, and the front tire only blew after the rim broke when it hit the curbing.
You are right, this is the correct analysis. You can see it in the footage that before she hit the curbs that cain is in the small ring. I ride the same groupset #SRAM RED AXS and I had the exact same thing; high torquing from almost stillstand into sprint. I think my frontmech was not 100% in the right static position.
Good observation.
Thanks
thery're all on the small chain ring still.
sram axis??
0:20 (0.25x speed): The downstroke of her left leg is abnormally fast. This means, that either her chain, or her rear tire slipped and this threw her balance off. When pushing as much power as they do during those starts in time trial, such little things do have a catastrophical outcome.
Indeed, i was watching slowmotion too. You can clearly see her left leg drop abnormaly fast on the downstroke. Because of that she drops almost onto the tube of her bikeframe and loses balance. Just a very unlucky start. Probably unavoidable, could've happened too anyone!
What power can a female push at the sprint. Give me a break
@@methylmercury More power than you ever will
Are you asleep? She is on the big ring with the chain even after bouncing off the curve you can see it all the way down to when she is on the ground, the chain is still on the big ring. The Tire deflated then popped off the rim that's why she went down.
How heavy do you think bikes are?@@methylmercury
The Dutch team only lost ten seconds in total compared to Switserland with just two riders. Not impossible that they could have taken the 40 seconds with AVV.
Lost
OR... It's actually quicker for the men to do it without a woman?
@@danielgorman4092 You clearly don't understand the event. Men ride with men, women ride with women. The Dutch men rode as a two after an early mechanical, the women rode as a two because of this crash.
@@danielgorman4092 Geez, can you be less of a neckbeard incel for just one day? It's not like you're getting out of that basement or doing anything athletic....
She took gold with a fractured elbow. Unbelievable!
And now she win the road race. What a comeback
And she turned worldchampion with a broken elbow, absolutely amazing!
At 1:15 you can clearly see the chain on the small ring, before the crash actually happened. Probably being thrown off-balance by a sudden downshift while putting full force on the pedals.
Is that the way you would start, with the chain in the big ring on the front and on the smallest cog at the back? Even with the ramp, wouldn't it be better for the chain to be in the centre of the cassette.
@@BushTelegraph its better to sprint from a dead stop in a gear you are able to spin up fast- so that gearing is obviously good for her. she probably was at the point where you start to gear up in your sprint, and makes me think she pressed both blips together (that does the front) instead of just the right blip (moves the back down 1) *sram etap
@@danjo1967 Do you think Annamiek actually dropped her chain thus causing her to crash?
I immediately remembered of her terrible accident back in 2016 in Rio Olympics. I'm sure she will recover fast!
Yeah that accident is worse than any horror movie for me.
@@barath4545 Even worse yet was the Rabobank Team TT during the 2014 World Championship. She just about took down the whole team. Great rider, but with a concerning history of pilot-error spectacular crashes.
so fast on time to be worldchampion... ahahhah
In Dutch media she said "Ik was ineens mijn balans kwijt en raakte de rand van de weg. Daardoor klapte mijn band. Het heeft ook niet zo veel zin nu naar de oorzaak te zoeken. Het verandert niets aan mijn situatie.” which roughly translates to: "I suddenly lost my balance and hit the curb, which caused my tyre to blow out. There's no point in trying to figure out what happened right now, as it doesn't change what happened"
Excellent translation!
Sounds weird…
@@vasmits Thank you
If you go frame by frame around 0:20 it looks like her left foot slips (as if she's skipped her chain), then she tries to recover before losing control. What a shame.
I, too, looked at the video frame by frame: at 0:19 her Canyon frame twisted and flexed too excessively, resulting the front wheel banked more than the rear wheel. Then she quickly lost the control of the bike.
@@macksoneh I had 2 Canyons Ultimate and Endurance with SRAM and they "flexed" when I pounded up climbs chain skips down and down I went. I no longer ride Canyon.
Title: What really happened
Me: So...what really happened? 🤔
Her chain dropped into the small ring and the power she was putting in caused her to lose balance
watched many times and still don't know. is mechanical issues?
Can't ride a bicycle
@@bod3102 it's never too late for you to learn how to ride a bicycle, dude....
@@bod3102then learn to ride, you are an adult
Her teammate behind kept her cool, rode over the fallen bike and carried on, wow…
That's what she's supposed to do lol. I don't really think she showed many skills there to be honest, she could have easily fallen too.
A small but calculated (even a pseudo) bunny hop what have been classy and effective. But then again they aren't trained for accidents they are trained to not have them. Sagan is a dude that mastered bike reaction skills for example.
@@Megadeth6633 Bla bla bla blabla.Idiot.
SA…. A bunny hop on a TT bike is so difficult. Better to just stay riding as was seen. I’m impressed as heck at the save.
Video recommended by TH-cam as AVV wins a new gold medal after this crash 🥇
My heart sank when she fell.. Pray for more power to her.. Wish her a speedy recovery..
Absolutely heartbreaking!
She confirmed tubeless failure.
And she won the road race anyway. What a fucking badass
It fits to Van Vleuten's career with great victories, but also strange fails like this one.
All 3 spectators were shocked.
Seems like the from derailleur changed to small plate, that's why her left crank suddendly drops like in the air(down) and makes her unstable 'cos her weight was already in that side
Poor Annemiek, wishing a quick recovery.
Absolutely heartbreaking!! I feel so bad for her....
As a cyclist who has also fallen, I feel her physical pain.
I too, am a cyclist who has fallen. Everywhere I go other cyclists turn away from me. They disband club rides when I show up. They no longer look me directly in the eye. Bike shops close their blinds and put up the closed sign when I approach. I ran into Greg LeMond once, and he told me (with his back to me), "Your daddy should have rolled over and shot you out the window." Someday I hope to be redeemed, though...
@@theephemeralglade1935 perhaps you fell in the literary forest and bounced off every tree until,your momentum arrested, you stood up and began to live a life of despair and rejection.
@The Ephemeral Glade Was that you, who silently rode up behind me as I sat by the side of the road, knee bloodied, shoulder aching, who hoisted me up and swiftly handed my bike to me, and whispered “Godspeed” before whooshing off into the night, a masked blur wrapped head to toe in black Lycra and Ace bandages? I had heard the legend but never believed it before.
@Stark Parker I have cabin in that forest
@@jmpstrnl2007 Based on your account of what happened, I sorely wish that that was me, lol.
More to the point, what did she say at 0:50
I’m going to go leave here and watch American cars drive around in a circle.
Her tire came of after the crash, and so did her back shifting mech, so that can't be the cause, IMO. It simply looks like her front wheel kinda giggled over the road surface, she lost all balance in a split second, tried to correct but crashed nonetheless. So weird! I feel for her, such a brilliant rider.
Who cares what your amateurish analysis of it is, but for 26 other dopes. 😀
I think the chain slipped somehow. Watch how her hips drop below the seat. It looks the she put force down on the pedal and it fell out from under her. I've had a crash like that where my cleat came out of the pedal. It would be similar if the chain broke or the rear derailleur hanger cracked. The "back shifting mech" or rear derailleur may have come off after the crash but it could have slipped before that. The characteristic way that her body fell screams drive chain problem to me.
@@ivanboesky1520 LOL you care enough obviously, otherwise you wouldn't spend part of your life reacting to my comment. Joke's on you. Cheers darling.
Slow it down to .25 speed and watch at 20-21 seconds. You can see the chain go from the large to the small ring immediately throwing her cadence and balance off causing the crash.
I think her chain came off and the amount of force she was putting through the driveset to get going threw her off balance
In 1:15, I see the chain the inner ring. Maybe the chain jumped from the outer ring to the inner one causing her the loss of balance, as you say.
Exactly,she lost the chain right at the highest point of power....😱
Yeah right… shit bike skills me thinking
I thought I saw a pic where the chain got sucked behind the crank arm.
The chain looks OK to me. Don't think she put out more power than men do....
Can’t keep AVV down! What a win!
tubeless tyres
The Tire Failed, for those fools to keep insisting the chain fell into the smaller ring you can see in the video she was in the big ring with the chain even after hitting the curb. When the bike comes back from the curb you can see the chain is on the big ring NOT SMALL.
I'VE DONE THIS. High torque on the cranks, mixed with some sort of unexpected chainring shift, leading to complete loss of stability. And it always sucks.
I had an early carbon tube/aluminum lug frame, and the bottom bracket shell was flexing enough that it popped the chain off the outer chainring and threw me into traffic.
I thought you were going to explain what really happened.
We just gonna ignore the incredible bunny hop over AVV's bike by Van Dijk?
Yes. Cause she simply rode over that bike. This wasn’t a bunny hop by any means. Still great bike handling
Looks like the rear derailleur broke or the hanger broke. That sucks!!! You can see the rear derailleur in an odd position as the bike lurches to her left.
Certainly something happened mechanically....watch the last pedal stroke before the fall her right leg which is on the upstroke, clearly suddenly accelerates up quickly, which means the power phase on the other side caused something to give. Chain, chain slip, rear hub or splines, or cluster are all possible causes. Weird.
I agree with Chris Froome that time trial bikes are stupid and should be banned. They add nothing to the sport except a bit of speed that spectators can’t see anyway and a lot of extra cost and danger.
Same for the road
They can do time trials on their regular bikes.
Silver lining? She just won the road race!
Tubeless tires are crap.
what a come back today!
front wheel tube gets peeled off - probably fail glue or something - so she lost grip and control.
try to see slowly the front wheel when she hits the ground
It’s incredible that this can happen on world class groupsets.
I’ve been so close to eating like this for the same reason but on an old irregurarly serviced groupset
Something happened with her drive train, as previously suggested...probably the chain jumping of a cog or ring. You can see her all of a sudden coming down on the tube. I've personally crashed a couple times like this having the chain snap while trying to crush it out of the saddle.
I see it too. I had a similar crash where my foot came out of a pedal. Your body drops down and your hips are suddenly lower than the seat. You try to recover with your arms and that causes the steering to go to crap.
Heel veel sterkte volgens jaar beter. ik ben trots op team NL.
Those aero bikes are really hard to handle, so if her chain slipped to the lower ring that would be more than enough to cause her to crash like that.
You can clearly see when the bike goes sideways that the chain is in the little ring, which it was not supposed to be. When pedaling at those efforts a sudden unwanted shift can throw anybody off. Bad luck!
After reading the comments I watched this on .25 speed. First I'm so sorry for Annemiek and the Dutch team, and I hope she can recover quickly. But listening to the commentary at .25 speed is pretty hilarious.
Yes, agreed about the commentary!
at 21 seconds in the writing is as clear as daylight, she made a mistake. she lost her footing in the cleat and her foot comes off the pedal on the left side of the bike. freeze frame at 21 seconds and you will see her left foot of the pedal and both wheels are perfectly fine. she then looses her balance and shoots off into the barrier which then explodes her wheel on impact.
HIGH TECH PROTECTION?Cycling is a brutal sport. In and out of hospitals all the time. Still don’t understand that cyclists don’t wear high tech protective clothing.
That has happened to be before. The chain sliped from the big to the small ring.
Slow the video way down and you can see that she was accellerating hard enough to lift the front tire off the ground. She did it once and lucked out but the second time the front of the bike went to the right several inches and when the tire made contact again the wheel was pointed in the wrong position and her weight was off to the left so that she could not recover.
I don't know if it is the camera playing tricks, but looking at the repeat from 1:00 , it look like the saddle gives in when she sits down? Either that or she slips off the front of the saddle.
EDIT: Explanation further down. Sounds like she slipped off the front of the saddle due to the chain slipping.
What was the front tire filled with??? Strange white fluid all over the front rim... none of them have any water bottles...
Impressionnant! Elle a déclaré que son pneu avant avait éclaté, mais la chute semble plutôt dû à un déséquilibre suite à un saut de chaine ou changement de plateau accidentel à cause de l'ergonomie des shifters.
Revealing how the commentator immediately accused Van Vleuten of getting "it wrong" by overlapping wheels. I'm glad there was another angle that clearly showed she wasn't at fault.
"accuse"... there has to be a better word than accuse -- how about his first guess was the most common cause of crashes
@@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Because you know, men bad, obviously a raging misogynist etc ...
Does she unclip with her left foot by accident (0:20). You can see the overshoe stretch as her shoe pulls away from the pedal.
How rider#3 not crash after rolling over AVV rear wheel and foot is bigger question.
Ellen Van Dijk sure can handle her TT bike. :)
But what *really* happened? Had to read the comments to find out!
What is the green light on the rear wheel?
Downshifted to the front small chainring, either by accident or because of the crappy carbon front chain ring that seems to have been failing all the riders this week. In any case she clearly was not expecting it and lost balance causing the crash.
I have had drive train issues and that’s exactly what it looks and feels like. I broke a chain and went right over the bars after slamming my thighs into the bar and stem 🤬 her chain did jump to the lower ring, you can see it as he carries the bike away.
That is 100 % a mechanical. You can see the resistance on the pedals completely disappearing :-(
Sudden loss of talent
looks like the front wheel tyre wasn’t seeded correctly and that gave under her power at the start if you look at time of impact her drive train is intact (chain/rear mec all looks sound) and the front wheel is sliding and tyre is off... not a good look for tubless if that's the case
More and more riders are experiencing catastrophic mechanical failures. Have these bikes become too over engineered? How many chain drops will we have at crucial times in one year?
These bikes are the best you can get and the riders are the best in the world and you still have problems with gear changes. The last three years or so it has been too many chain failures at critical moments that sometimes jams the chain and they have to switch bikes. It's too delicate and fragile with todays 12 speed cassettes and super narrow chains. Every time a rider goes down the chain jumps off the chain ring. Where there even mechanical failures besides punctures in the days of Eddie Merckx?
From the rear view, you can see her chain drop when she's on the downstroke on her left leg. That's what caused it.
Why did she do that?
I think her freewheel failed and the pedals went round way too easy.
canyon ttt fail?
Canyon mail order bikes happened, there must have been some parts missing from the box.
So....what really happened?
something failed at the drive ring and she automatically shifted forward off the saddle starting the severe wobble.
Looks like the motor/ engine turned on and she wasn’t ready for the acceleration
I have a TT bike, I have a SRAM AIXS drive system, and I have the same symptoms as her It has the same symptoms, especially when changing the outer -> inner, or when changing the rear drailer to a heavy sprocket
My solution is to lower the cadence during the shift, check the shift, and raise the cadence again
This is suspected to be the self-defect of the SRAM
did she accidently dropped the chain to the small ring?, it sure looks like it
I can't help but think that Annemiek and Primos Roglic have had similar careers from the point of view that they are both incredible athletes who had had their strength and bravery undermined by some horrible crashes. Annemiek had a disturbing crash in the Mexico Olympics and finished one of her her world championship races with a broken leg whereas as Primos had his worst crash during his skiing career but has lost a number of stage races due to crashes when he was in contention to win. Hope they both recover well from their latest spills and they have not been left with left with any long term ill effects from any of their tarmac hitting incidents.
Mexico Olympics? Rio is in Brazil...
@@fredshino That was a faux pas! Must have been thinking of my 8 speed Campy wheels, but it was one scary crash.
Annemiek won nearly everything big she could, though. Primoz...not so much...
@@anggungunara Yesterday's win at Woolongong was perhaps her greatest yet - the equivalent of three grandies and a WC in a year that she turned 39 and had to overcome sickness in one of the tours and an elbow fracture in one of the hardest womens' WCRRs ever is one of the great feats of road cycling. Primoz hasn't and may never end up matching her winning record but he is currently around the same age as Annemiek when she really started her period of dominance so he has time to close the gap and I hope neither of them suffer any long term effects from their crashes.
@@simonwoodford8728 I understand where you're going and to some extent I agree. But I doubt Primoz will be able to duck decline to Annemiek's age, it's not looking like it now. They also live in two different worlds, Annemiek's world don't have that many younger monsters named Tadej, Jonas, Remco, and all the Ayuso's that will keep coming up. Primoz is a big rider among his peers, he's one of the bests, for sure. But 'big among her peers' and 'one of the bests' is an insult to Annemiek, she's the ultimate ruler, top of the food chain, the final boss. And I'm not even a fan.
Hard to press 'like' in such cases. Hope she's fine! Damn nasty fall!
There is a triple flash right before she loses balance, looks like she got spooked and mispedalled or accidentally downshifted.
After the fall she makes a gesture and talks in the direction of that flash.
In an interview she said, her tire exploded.
Poor Annemiek 😔
It almost looks to me like her left crank broke. She loses is it with left leg down, then right leg goes down at the same time like both cranks are at the 6 o clock position. Is that it? Then bike on the ground the right crank is at 12 o clock and the left crank is at 9 o clock viewed from the drive side.
Could be. I had that happen to me while sprint training. Did not end well. Before you said this, I was thinking of some type of equipment failure.
At 1:10, it looks like both cranks are still on the bike. Maybe it was a broken chain, or broken pedal (or just unclipped by accident)
At 1:14 her bars look tilted to her right. Maybe the bars or headset malfunctioned. ??
Her left crank didn’t break you can clearly see it at the end of the video
It looks like either the chain came off or the rear derailleur did shear off.
Chain skip, just as she passes those two shimano signs ironically
she's using SRAM, so shimano's off the hook
Ouch. I know there's a lot of banter between mountainbikers and roadies, but slamming into a curb and sliding on asphalt like that with no pads or full-face helmet isn't fun.
As others have said, it looks like her chain slips or shifts from the large front ring to one of the inner rings while she's up out of the saddle applying power, and the effect is pretty much the same as a snapped chain or crank failure.
Chain slip.Its happened to me. A few times when I've put down to much power going. up hill
Did she roll the tire? Somebody going to be fired
I'll venture to say that the cassette lockring either broke or loosened and her chain was caught between cogs which gave her no chain traction and that's why she appears to be falling forward.
They are on sram so that’s not possible
Movistar rides Zipp wheels. Likely this is a hookless front rim and the tire was at a too high pressure and the front tire blew off. Mechanics saw the GC Performance video showing a 1 kph speed increase when riding a 120 psi (clinchers) vs 72 psi tubeless tire on smooth tarmac. The WC TT route is smooth tarmac. This makes sense as why would the UCI choose gravel or cobbles for a WC TT course.
So... er... what really happened?
Do all e shifters have different frequencies?
Cross chain ring, over torque at a weird angular position as the bike was about to take speed off and sudden accidental shifting resulting in lost of bike control, bike swaying hitting curb and the wheels and rd crushed is an after effect of the former?
Cycling News is reporting that her chain dropped from the big cog to the small cog and this power difference caused her to react to the change in resistance. They also emphasize it was not her fault. That elbow has got to hurt... Where's the big-time drugs, Honey?
Each left leg downstroke doesn't just cause the bike to lean, the front wheel turns right. Happens a few times before it throws her weight too far forward and she can't recover. Right leg downstroke she keeps the wheel straight when the bike leans.
Her bike was hacked...
never seen someone put a bottle of a drink in their back pocket
another good reason to keep mech and not do electric....shifts no better or faster....more expensive...weighs more....batteries....so why do electric...just like rim road brakes...big corporation tells you to do it...so ....
A bad day for the Dutch team. It shows that even the very best can have things go wrong. Annemieke and Bauke will return, they're made of tougher stuff than that.
I wish you a speedy recovery!