Results: Myriam Nicole & Benoit Coulanges Win the 2021 French National DH Championships

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TheBearDen FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:13)

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SterlingArcher (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:35)

I can’t wait for this comment section to be behind a paywall to be certain

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lastminutetech (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:19)

The employees from PB should start their own bike platform and the Outside outside in the cold. Theyre the ones with the passion, intel, connections and brand.

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ReeferSouthrland (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:50)

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lastminutetech (Jul 17, 2021 at 11:00)

@ReeferSouthrland: ya it could be a big opportunity for other platforms

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stflood (Jul 17, 2021 at 12:06)

@SterlingArcher: reading these comments has always cost you if you think about it...

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DoubleCrownAddict (Jul 17, 2021 at 17:05)

@stflood: Not of you are reading my progressive blogs. You'll be enlightened!

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commental (Jul 18, 2021 at 0:51)

@DoubleCrownAddict: But will you have time for your enlightening blogs between weeding out all the far right supporters on here and single handedly putting Shimano out of business?

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ReeferSouthrland (Jul 18, 2021 at 8:12)

@commental: Imagine weeding out the far left idiots, that could take 5 minutes at least.

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tb927 (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:31)

Does Coulanges winning something big mean Rob Warner is now going to say his name correctly at World Cups?

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suspended-flesh FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:10)

I hope not.

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danstonQ (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:35)

Ha ha!!! Warner does what he can, but it's true that he's not good at pronouncing foreign names, especially the french ones. It's pretty cute actually

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Maxcommencemal FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 10:40)

He's just retained his national jersey, so guessing that service will continue as normal ! I'm always backing Dylan Levesskay because I'm a big fan of Rob's pronunciations.
Also Adrian Daley (with an Ulster accent) in the ews

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Waldon83 (Jul 17, 2021 at 14:45)

How is it pronounced out of interest?

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Greghoin FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 22:51)

@Waldon83: ku-lanj (silent “es”)

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Waldon83 (Jul 18, 2021 at 0:49)

@Greghoin: so not Col-on-shä

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SterlingArcher (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:35)

French nationals/unofficial world championship

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ColquhounerHooner (Jul 17, 2021 at 15:49)

Possibly valid from an American's perspective.

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jackalope (Jul 17, 2021 at 16:40)

@ColquhounerHooner: whatever, we dominate the world in sports that people actually care about like:

Hot dog eating

And...well, probably sh!tty food eating in general...so there!

But yeah, other than Dak, we're pretty light on podium threats these days

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SupraKZ (Jul 18, 2021 at 10:25)

@jackalope: Dakotah is super solid though. Don't lose hope

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SterlingArcher (Jul 18, 2021 at 18:34)

@SupraKZ: agree, Dak is our brightest hope!

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DANV (Jul 17, 2021 at 13:49)

We are definitely seeing the return of French riders dominating UCI DH The French nationals track was insane, any of those guys in the top 5 are contenders for the overall. Also nice to see Pompom killing it.

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DylanH93 FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 22:37)

The French are taking over, history really does change. But for real, the French riders are insane, must be something in the water.

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Clemounet FL (Jul 18, 2021 at 4:01)

@DylanH93: "must be something in the water."

Yeah, we call that "Ricard"

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pasteque51 FL (Jul 18, 2021 at 7:47)

@DylanH93: Take Barel Bruni Vergier Dailly or Daprela: they all come from the same club: US Cagnes, they do shuttles on local DH tracks or on french and italien enduro spots every weekend with coach Vouilloz helping them. Oh the first cadet is faster than the first junior, look at his club...

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styriabeef (Jul 17, 2021 at 12:29)

Why are the French so fast? Because while having a contender injured the most recent wc winners and former worldchampion get beaten at nationals by 2 guys that hafen't even podiumed. Wow. That field is deep!

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purplegorillaz (Jul 18, 2021 at 2:58)

Coulanges already did, 5th at leogang this year

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nvranka (Jul 17, 2021 at 16:37)

Great to see Benoit killing it lately

Maybe he has been for a while, but I feel like I’ve been seeing his name a lot more lately.

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DoubleCrownAddict (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:22)

Bunny Hop Club must be one of the best sponsor names ever! Even without their fastest racer, the French still rule.

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dingus (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:40)

Their fastest racer is Loic Bruni, Loris Vergier, Thibaut Daprela, Amaury Pierron and Benoit Coulanges, it just depends on the day.

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suspended-flesh FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:12)

Indeed, the French still totally dominated without the Pierrons in attendance.

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krazieghost (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:13)

balls

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dirtologist (Jul 18, 2021 at 1:26)

Antoine Vidal, who is supposed to be riding in Juniors EWS, takes almost 2 out of 3 splits... WTF!?!

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joselp (Jul 18, 2021 at 23:05)

Because French Races are always on shit track. This one is really enduro, long flat section, no burm, loose corner.

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polarproton (Jul 19, 2021 at 9:02)

He's one of Ravanels' protégé, dude's got talent on tap. He is making Frejus proud!

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dakine69 (Jul 18, 2021 at 23:19)

So you won the last worldcup and now you are fifth at nationals. Could only happen in France

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modestwheeler (Jul 20, 2021 at 10:54)

Pretty sad that PB puts out more concerning other countries national champs than the domestic race. The KHS piece doesn’t cut it.

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ShaunR123 (Jul 17, 2021 at 12:56)

Sums up the how far behind women’s racing is whe myriam wins by 17s

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blackthorne (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:03)

PAYWALL

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loam4311 (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:07)

it cost me zero to view these results?

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PauRexs FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:12)

@loam4311: insert coins for pictures...

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loam4311 (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:51)

@PauRexs: just use your imagination? they probably looked pretty fast
/s

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nvranka (Jul 17, 2021 at 19:35)

@loam4311: they probably looked like they were frozen in time

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MTB-Ohana (Jul 19, 2021 at 1:28)

Commencal is killing it.

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SpaghettiShredder (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:09)

Smh

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Ds1234 FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:22)

why? thats racing

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MindPatterns FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 7:12)

Thanks for the spoiler.

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nozes (Jul 17, 2021 at 8:51)

You were going to watch the race later? Where?

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suspended-flesh FL (Jul 17, 2021 at 9:09)

@nozes: In a magazine