XCC Short Track Results from the Les Gets XC World Cup 2021

 Pidcock's new safety measures for Sunday's race www.instagram.com/p/CPtJhvupJ_l

 @used-couch-salesman: Umm... no.. Nino was well behind him when he went down, and had to swerve to get out of the way. If anything he was lucky not to fall over Tom, cause he would've gone OTB off that drop. He clipped his front tire on J. Sarrou's back tire. Just a simple mistake. I'm glad he's ok tho. That could've been a lot nastier than it was.

 @danielfloyd: Just watched again, not Nino, my bad, Sarrou, Sarrou saw him coming and sped up and might have drifted to the right a bit but nothing egregious.

 He said he wants to try DH, but as Andreas demonstrated yesterday, you can still get hit by cars on a DH track. Watch out Tom

 people underestimate road cyclists, but they are tough as hell.

 @Narro2: It's also a wealthy enough sport to get the best surgeons

 @danielfloyd: what are the chances of a postman jumping out during the DH though

 @Narro2: hot take: road cycling is way gnarlier than DH. Statistically it’s way more dangerous and the average crash is much worse too

 @thingswelike: Never understood your thinking, as someone who has started getting into more road riding. I seems alot cheaper to get ultegra mid-high level components with carbon wheels vs say XT - decent suspension and mid grade AL wheels. (Yes I know the FS is what costs the cash) but that's the whole argument.

The top end might be a different story but for 3-6k your money goes alot further in road bikes. But at the end of the day it's going to be about the rider/fitness more so then 3k vs 12k per bike in both disciples.

 @Trouser84: I'm not talking about riding bikes on the road. I'm talking about the professional sport with multi-million dollar contracts, team doctors, globally famous personalities, etc. A rider missing a race costs so much money that you can afford to throw more at surgeons to get them back up and running quickly.
The Ineos team budget (of which Pidcock is a key member) is €50 million per year.

 Nothing she just wasn't as fast as the rest. Was near the front for most of the race.

 Got dropped.

 she said, pffft short track

 She wants to keep a low profile

 Lol his dressed up as Big Bird leading the GC in the Tour de France

 probably couldn't find the time after stage 7 of the tour to hop over for a little bit short-track, but he'll be much closer on Sunday, maybe he'll squeeze it in, lol

 @mrkkbb: That would be the most legendary move in the history of cycling.

 @Willemhc: If it's same-day, yes. He's already switched racing disciplines two consecutive days, and won both. And he routinely wins two cyclocross races each weekend.

 @mrkkbb: tomorrow’s stage - not the ideally recovery ride.
He was crushed after today’s effort…held on for another day.

 @ReformedRoadie: Golden age of streaming, glitch free live tour coverage, then solid XC racing

 @gbyrne: Red Bull is so much better than Freecaster. But let’s pour one out for the races we watched in 2009.

 Heard Pidcock was racing, so decided to go get some easy wins on the road.

 Got dropped.

 Last couple races she has been off pace. Might already be burned out for the season.

 She'll be making a motivational video based on Pinkbike's comments section soon.

 @Jamminator: wouldn’t doubt she was peak right at the first couple weeks of season and is past peak. Very possible being young and not knowing how to build into a season. Could see the same thing happening to Loana and you know Pauline has been specifically looking to peak for Olympics. Anyone that was super fast early this season could no way sustain peak until Olympics. If I were training any of them we’d just be doing our buildup now and would have still been in bulk first couple of races. If Loana takes gold in Japan she’s just that much faster than anyone but I suspect she will blow up. Hard to say for sure but going to be sick no matter what.

 @mtb1101: I see what you did there...

 @Jamminator: or she just was trying to qualify for the Olympics and is saving energy for them now that she qualified.

 @Themissinglink83: Olympics is three weeks away. You don't go from P30's on mid-season break to podium in three weeks.