She was probably the best individual athlete that I ever worked with, including Mark Cavendish and Tony Martin.”Īnd she had something else, something that few of her contemporaries possessed: an authoritative charisma that made her at once feared, admired, and beloved. The German powerhouse had a sprint that was hard to beat, but “her skillset in every type of racing, in every discipline, was remarkable,” says Bob Stapleton, who owned the T-Mobile and Columbia/Highroad/HTC teams on which Ina dominated from 2005 to 2011. In a sport where most racers lose most of the time, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg had an outsize ability to win, notching more than 200 victories in a 15-year elite career. That cold gray day in March 2013 at a small Dutch race called Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo should have been just another entry in one of the longest and winningest careers in professional bike racing. She wonders why a story about her needs writing at all. Ina may wonder why this story has to open this way. Somebody shrieked, “ Somebody!” Racers picked themselves up, straightened their bikes, shook off the impact. Another rider jumped up and down, screaming, spinning her arm overhead like an ambulance beacon. She lay face down, the left side of her face planted on the pavement, her body motionless, blood trickling from her nose.
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