Still thinking about the Olympics, I always wondered what would happen if a cyclist just took off without surrounding oneself with a team in the peloton (the large group of cyclists riding together in a road race). Well, we found out when Austrian Anna Kiesenhofer, an unknown, took off from the start and never looked back.
TOKYO, July 25 (Reuters) – Austrian Anna Kiesenhofer caused one of the biggest shocks in Olympic road racing history with an audacious solo victory in the women’s race as a quartet of Dutch champions paid for an apparent communications meltdown on Sunday.
The 30-year-old Kiesenhofer was allowed to build up a lead of around 10 minutes in a five-rider group that escaped right at the start of the 137km route into the hills west of Tokyo...
She held firm to claim a completely unexpected gold medal in three hours 52 minutes, one minute and 15 seconds, clear of Dutch rider Annemiek Van Vleuten who was celebrating like she had won the race as she crossed the line with arms held aloft.
“I thought I was [number] one,” Van Vleuten was heard saying to her team masseur Ruud Ziljmans on Dutch TV. “Ruud, have I got that wrong?”…
“I don’t think anyone wrote her down. I don’t know her. How much can you do wrong, if you don’t know someone?” she said of the Austrian’s surprise victory.
“How much can you do wrong if you don’t know someone?” Sometimes the “elite” miss it. The elite certainly missed Jesus.
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” (John 1.44 – 46, ESV)
The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived? Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.” (John 7.47 – 52, ESV)
And take note of this: There are some who are despised and viewed as the least important now, but will one day be placed at the head of the line. And there are others who are viewed as ‘elite’ today who will become least important then. (Luke 13.30, TPT)