{"id":163515,"date":"2018-02-13T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=163515"},"modified":"2018-02-13T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:18:42","slug":"world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/02\/13\/world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships` Silver Medallist Blames Disc Brakes for a Cut to the Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While disc brakes have been a subject of considerable debate in road peloton, they have been largely used in cyclocross without much controversy since 2010. That might, however, change with Katie Compton`s latest accident which ended her season on a rather bitter note.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The silver medallist from Cyclocross World Championships was involved in a crash in the opening lap of the Krawatencross race in Lille. Compton suffered a deep cut to her knee and blamed it on disc rotors. Her husband shared a distressing image of the wound which you can see below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What happens when two riders make poor decisions and can\u2019t be patient on the first lap and squeeze Katie into a crash? Disc rotor cut to the bone. Not a happy way to end a great season \ud83d\ude20 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ORlxqWXh0\">pic.twitter.com\/7ORlxqWXh0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Legg \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@MrKatieCompton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrKatieCompton\/status\/962376552305561600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Despite the injury and having to change her shoe, Katie was able to get back on the bike and finish the race in seventh place. What a tough woman. She was even able to find a bright side in getting cut!<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The good thing about disc rotor slices is that they don\u2019t hurt till much later and the bleeding that doesn\u2019t want to stop cleans the wound nicely. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stitches?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#stitches<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/brightside?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#brightside<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/offseason?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#offseason<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xGYbN4bEeO\">https:\/\/t.co\/xGYbN4bEeO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Katie Compton (@KatieFnCompton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieFnCompton\/status\/962431020812431367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>What do you think about the use of disc brakes? Is it still too dangerous? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While disc brakes have been a subject of considerable debate in road peloton, they have been largely used in cyclocross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":163516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328],"tags":[1723,1722],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-163515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoor-mountain","tag-disc-brakes","tag-katie-compton"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Championships` Silver Medallist Blames Disc Brakes for a Cut to the Bone - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While disc brakes have been a subject of considerable debate in road peloton, they have been largely used in cyclocross without much controversy since\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/02\/13\/world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World Championships` Silver Medallist Blames Disc Brakes for a Cut to the Bone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While disc brakes have been a subject of considerable debate in road peloton, they have been largely used in cyclocross without much controversy since\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/02\/13\/world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-02-13T12:18:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2018\/02\/ComptonCover.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Monica Buck\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/02\/13\/world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2018\/02\/13\/world-championships-silver-medallist-blames-disc-brakes-cut-bone\/\",\"name\":\"World Championships` Silver Medallist Blames Disc Brakes for a Cut to the Bone - 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