When Chicago-based Lindsay Knight packed up to travel to the three-day Jingle Cross Cyclocross Festival, the Cat 2 racer was hoping to mix it up in the mud with Helen Wyman and other pros in the UCI C2 Women’s race Friday night, and contest the Women’s Open 1/2 races on Saturday and Sunday.
Mixing it up with race announcers and contesting their commentary were not in her Iowa City plans.
Yet on Sunday, the Ph.D. in Political Science found herself offering up a timely dissertation on how announcers can abuse the power of a microphone to offend racers and fans.