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ABOUT SAFETY

Of the three components of the iron distance, the cycle stage undoubtedly has the highest injury rate.

The main mistake that causes athletes to get hurt and have accidents is the feeling that you can do anything. It if happens, you let yourself

relax and lose your vigilance. It is particularly unacceptable to let your guard down on the road when riding a bike. The backslash always comes unexpectedly and can be very fast. Even if you have traveled tens of thousands of kilometers and feel as one

The main mistake that causes athletes to get hurt and have accidents is the feeling that you can

do anything. It if happens, you let yourself relax and lose your vigilance.

with your bike, the false sense that you in control and everything is nothing to you now could be disproven in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately, that's what happened to me. Unexpectedly for everybody and first of all for myself, I got injured during the cycling stage.

It happened during a training camp in Cyprus. We used to go there often on short trips, especially when the weather at home, in Samara, wouldn’t let us train anymore. During cycling training, I got my front wheel colliding with the back wheel of the cyclist riding in front of me, lost my balance and tumbled off the road. It all happened in the blink of an eye: I can’t remember the