Rio 2016 Olympics

I think that among cyclists there is an interest in seeing what happened because it's a relatable incident. A lot of us hear about someone coming off their bike and it will affect us. This is because most of us will have, at some point, come off our bikes and this suggest to us that it is going to happen again. The natural response is to seek out more information about what happened to the rider. This allows us to put the incident into greater context, process and rationalise it. It gives us the opportunity to understand either why it won't happen to us or what we need to do to avoid it happening to us. It's a fairly normal human response which, in our current environment of instant information and instant gratification leads us to seek out more and more detail.

There will be some prurient interest but, among cyclists, it's mostly about understanding a relatable part of the world we live in. It's not about seeing a woman break her neck but about rationalising why we're still safe to do what we do.