STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Triathletes and bicyclists who frequent popular Yampa Valley road routes are angry, and they want answers to their flattened tires.
Before 9 a.m. Sunday, four separate reports were filed with the Routt County Sheriff’s Office by athletes competing in the Steamboat Triathlon regarding hundreds of metal thumbtacks strewn across a stretch of Colorado 131. The tacks became embedded in tires and caused numerous blowouts and plenty of frustration among competitors
Race officials and athletes are calling the incident a malicious act and a planned sabotage against the annual triathlon and recreational bicyclists, reported.
The four official reports represented a fraction of those affected Sunday in the 10th annual race at and around Lake Catamount.
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