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"The most difficult thing is I don't understand what happened," said [Marie-Helene Premont], who spent most of the race wrapped in a cooling vest in a medical room just beside the course. "I can't explain why my breathing (went off) the way it did because that has never happened to me before.
"It was an awesome race, it was amazing out there," the 28-year-old [Catharine Pendrel] said. "Unfortunately, I had a bit of trouble shifting on the last climb and Irina was right on my wheel, I had to put a foot down, she got by me and that was bronze."When I had to stop to catch my breath, I was certainly asking myself questions," said Premont, who had supportive chats with her sister and her mother after she quit the race. "But, remember, this was a bicycle race, not the end of the world.See the full content of this document
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Disappointed Mountain Biker
knows life full of ups and downs
By John MacKinnonLAOSHAN, China -- If Marie-Helene Premont's Olympic mountain biking career ended Saturday not with a gold medal but with an a...See the full content of this document
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