The Race Itself Was the Easy Part Fariba Hashimi crossed second in the women’s road race at the Asian Games near Nagoya, Japan, on the Shinshiro Cycling Road Course. On paper, that’s a clean line — start, finish, silver. In practice, almost nothing about her path there has been clean. She raced without a mechanic. One person from the Afghan federation came along, and his job was driving the car. Compare that to the support teams other national squads bring, and the gap becomes obvious. She still finished second. Training…
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