Three months ago, she underwent surgery to cure a knee problem that threatened to end her career, and although she came back to win the Giro d'Italia, there had not been enough time to get her fully race-hardened again.
"Since domestication is an evolutionary process, there will be found all degrees of plant and animal association with man and a range of morphological differentiations from forms identical to wild races to fully domesticated races.
Along these lines, Harlan (1975: 63) stated: "Since domestication is an evolutionary process, there will be found all degrees of plant and animal association with man and a range of morphological differentiations from forms identical to wild races to fully domesticated races.
But a few cases of harassment don't justify a fully fledged race war.
And his firm, Clipper Ventures, is running its third fully crewed race around the planet for amateur sailors who pay to compete.
Today, Nascar is much more competitive, with too many fully funded race teams to accommodate in the weekly 43-car field.
"We achieved what we set out to in 2010, but now it's effectively a clean sheet: an entirely new car, a fully fledged race team and factory, and much higher aspirations".
There was an optimistic idea that the field of 20 driverless cars would be taking to the track in the 2017/2018 season, but DevBot's demonstration on Saturday showed that a fully autonomous race later this year is unlikely.
And on Monday Formula E demonstrated its new, fully electric race car for the first time in Las Vegas, capable of reaching speeds of more than 150mph (240kph), and going from 0-60 in under three seconds.
Arguably the book is written from a very privileged perspective, one that does not fully incorporate race and socio-economic factors in its analysis.
