– Right now I don’t know if I should laugh or cry, I’d rather laugh at the interview and cry when I get home, Solveig Løvseth tells news after the triathlon competition. While Lotte Miller had to break the competition, things didn’t go smoothly for Solveig Løvseth either. The other Norwegian participant simply swam incorrectly after a good start. KRØLL: It was a bad day for Solveig Løvseth in the swimming part. She swam the wrong way in the river Seine. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB – I don’t know how I can manage it, but I can’t see the bend I have to turn around. So I just keep swimming away. It is a completely unforgivable mistake. It shouldn’t be possible not to see it, says Løvseth to news. She finished disappointed in number 48. After a good start, it was on the second round of the swimming part that things went wrong. BE READY: Solveig Løvseth and Lotte Miller before the start of the competition where most things would go wrong. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB She says that several boats asked her to turn around. – And then it’s not just swimming back where you swam wrong, but you also have to swim against the current. Then I thought this would be a long day, says Løvseth, who realized that it was over in terms of a strong position after the mistake. And neither was it a good day for Lotte Miller, the other Norwegian participant. She had to break after her second tumble of the day. – I’m in a bit of pain now, yes, says Lotte Miller to news after having a medical check-up. Ugly overturned – Ouch. it didn’t look good, exclaimed news’s commentator Jann Post when the images of Lotte Miller’s overturned rolled in the replay. Miller had already gone down on the bike part once, when it rained again on the 40-kilometer bike part of the competition. And this time Miller was left lying on the tarmac. And it didn’t look good. HAD TO BREAK: Lotte Miller fell over twice before breaking the triathlon competition in Paris. Photo: David Goldman / AP At first, sports director Arild Tveiten was worried because he had no information about Miller’s whereabouts immediately after the competition. Afterwards, news’s camera caught Miller on her way to the medical tent, almost an hour after she broke the competition. GOT HELP: Lotte Miller on her way to medical treatment after her second roll, which sent her out of the competition. The athlete, who has struggled with his back in the past, had to break, as the asphalt was about to dry up after soapy conditions. – I hope there is nothing in the area she is in pain with now. It looked scary, says news expert Jørgen Gundersen. Then she had also fallen to the ground earlier in the competition: Some time later, Lotte Miller walked away from a medical check-up with an ice pack on her thigh. She later allowed herself to be interviewed by news. – Today I was the person who was perhaps the most unlucky out there. The first time I went down it was slippery conditions, says Miller. She got back up, but then she made a fatal mistake when she went down on the same side as in the first tumble. It hit the hip. LAME: Lotte Miller on her way away from a medical check-up. Photo: Hanne Skjellum She says that she rode into the front wheel of another in her group and lost control – That’s what annoys me the most. That’s a mistake you shouldn’t make at this level, says Miller. SLAM IN THE HIP: Lotte Miller shows off the area that took a beating in her two overturns. No replacement The first question was whether Miller’s bang means that it is a joke for the Norwegian team in the team competition next week. Because there is no substitute. – Lotte has trained mostly for the mixed relay we have on Monday. This was no fun to watch, says news expert Gundersen after Miller’s overturn. ON THE GROUND: Lotte Miller had a tough time during the triathlon competition in Paris But Miller believes she should take part in the team competition. – Yes. Now I am very bruised, very swollen and have a big red mark on my thigh. But physicists are ready to do what they have to do. I have iced down. Everything else is fine, except that the place that has been hit is quite sore, says Miller. There had also been trouble for Miller before she tumbled out of the competition. Because it was a mess in the change over to the bike: – Soapy smooth Before Miller’s overturn, there had been extreme conditions in Paris during the triathlon competition. On the bike part, it was very slippery in the streets, which also partly contained cobblestone sections. A number of athletes hit the tarmac. Several went down in the same overturn and the same turns. – It is soapy in Paris, said Post as the athletes continued to tumble on the wet surface. SCRUBBED UP: Lotte Miller also got a solid bang at the first meeting with the asphalt on Wednesday morning. Photo: David Goldman / AP But it was when the asphalt was about to dry that the Norwegian athlete fell out of the competition. It had already been an extreme day for the athletes. Because when the competition was underway, it was not the bacteria in the river Seine that was at stake. TROUBLE: Maria Carolina Velasquez Soto from Colombia was just one of many athletes who tumbled through the streets of Paris in the cycling section. Photo: David Goldman / AP Solvei Løvseth also saw that her teammate Miller was lying on the asphalt after the rollover and felt for her teammate. – Not such a good day for the Norwegian girls in general today, says Løvseth. Extreme current The problems already started on the pier in the Seine when the women started the triathlon competition. Then 10–12 athletes were left for several seconds when the starting shot went off and got off to a miserable start. And out in the river they encountered extreme conditions. – I have never seen swimming conditions with such strong currents as now, said news’s expert Jørgen Gundersen when the swimming part was well under way. TOUGH ROOF: It was tight between the athletes on the way to the rounding buoy during the competition. The strong current makes it an advantage to be behind the competition. Photo: David Goldman / AP – They stand almost still, Jann Post added about the athletes in the water. The information was that the athletes would encounter currents with a speed of 0.8 meters per second in the river. But when the athletes struggled through 1,500 meters in the river, you could see what the conditions in the river cost. Because the athletes had to fight for every meter as they swam against the current up the river. And when Flora Duffy came out on top from the swimming section, Gundersen pointed out that there was talk of 3-5 minutes longer competition time than usual in the swimming section. French victory The race part went undramatically. But it was a day of jubilation for the French home crowd. Cassandre Beaugrand moved away in the last round to wild cheers in the streets of Paris. OLYMPIC CHAMPION: The French home hope Cassandre Beaugrand took Olympic gold with a move on the last lap of the running part. Photo: Aleksandra Szmigiel / Reuters Julie Derron from Switzerland was unable to threaten the French home favorite, who ran in for Olympic gold. Published 31.07.2024, at 09.59 Updated 31.07.2024, at 12.14
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Nightmare day for Lotte Miller in the Olympics in Paris 2024 – fears for Norwegian medal chances in triathlon – Olympics Paris 2024
