Overall Standings After EWS Val Di Fassa 2022

 For real? You simply ignored Sam f*cking Hill! (And Romain Paulhan)

 @bashhard: my bad sorry

 Doesn't make me feel old, it makes me feel like I can still be fast since I'm the same age as Eddie.

 All Hail the Fairbrother \m/

 It's happening, Deviate set up a Godundme for him! www.gofundme.com/f/matthew-fairbrother?viewupdates

 Those two are pretty incredible. Seems like never a bad stage, they're so consistent and so consistently fast. Sure, some other guys can approach their times, but never for an entire race...

 @shredddr: It seems like we always hear about what mistakes Rude made but not what Melamed did. Like Rude crashed in one of the stages, and we know Jesse was riding smart, but I wonder if he had any "shit your pants" moments as well.

 @swenzowski: I'm the king of "shit your pants" moments.

 @JesseMelamed: one of us!

 @swenzowski: More like the king of us

 Tom in the top 125! Lets go Tom!

 this!

 I would like to see Masters Moir Melamed Maes Murray finish 1-5

 Kind of expensive to race any UCI series when the schedules are all setup for European racers.

 @WestSlopeAdam: The 6 AUS/NZL riders in just the top 15 Pro men seem to be making it work, and they have 0 races on their continent for this series (there are 2 rounds in the US and 1 in Canada).

 @WestSlopeAdam: that doesn’t explain it. Tons of athletes from outside of Europe in these standings. Just no Americans.

 @CleanZine: C’mon now. Those 6 guys are all established riders on top-tier teams. Long flights for down under, sure, but (hopefully) they aren’t paying their own way and have someone else taking care of the travel logistics.

But, to your last point, if you’re a privateer North American enduro racer and there’s 3 EWS races on your home continent, why bother with the hassle and expense of the first 3 European rounds? I’ll bet you see a lot more USA, CAN and maybe even some MEX in the top 150 when the next 3 rounds are done.

 @bocomtb: man, i am really interested in this. I really hope the US reps better.

 @bocomtb: Being full factory/pro does help, but they didn't arrive fully formed as pro riders. In terms of getting to the races as a privateer as they all did initially it's harder to do it from that region, but they did and have risen to that point now. If US racers really want to do it then it shows that if those guys can, they can too. If anything it's easier in some ways as there's much more media focus on and from the US, so getting exposure is arguably more straightforward to help with sponsorship. It's also cheaper and easier to travel to Europe from the US.

Do agree that there'll be more USA/CAN/MEX riders in the top 150 for the next 3 round in just the same way that at the Tweed Valley round there were plenty of unknown UK riders who were up in the standings. It's a shame that the Australian and New Zealand rounds wound up getting cancelled so early on as it would have been cool to get those locals more of a chance too.

 Let’s be real, the tone on this site toward Rude and American riders in general is salty at best, many times from Americans. Combine the attitude, lack of serious amateur support, and most races are in Europe equals little North American riders.