For the first time riders faced the flat out XCC Short Track format at the World Championships in the fight for a Rainbow Jersey. Check out who takes home the titles below.
Results:
Elite Women (7 Laps):
1st. Sina Frei: 20:11
2nd. Evie Richards: +0
3rd. Pauline Ferrand Prevot: +1
4th. Linda Indergand: +2
5th. Jolanda Neff: +11
Elite Men (8 Laps):
1st. Christopher Blevins: 19:30
2nd. Henrique Avancini: +2
3rd. Max Brandl: +2
4th. Ondrej Cink: +3
5th. Alan Hatherly: +5
Full Results:Elite WomenElite Men
Fair point, but I feel that the young crop US riders and teams like Bear National are doing a good job of bringing a little cool factor back to XC. All this new breed of kids can rip and they’ll do well on modern XCO tracks as evidenced by the decent finish of some of the US Juniors.
Technically none of the national champs should wear their jerseys in XCC unless they are national XCC champ, but most ignore this. Anton Cooper never wears his NZ national MTB champs shirt in XCC races; always rocks up in his Trek trade shirt
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Ended up using Czech Republic with no problems.
Talk about the Short & Tall of it.
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Woman’s race no sound only commentary
Men’s race commentary didn’t start until 5 minutes into the race and was sporadic at best. And again the commentary sound balance was more in favour of the commentary.
And generally the commentary was poor.
Let’s hope they sort it out for the dh.
I still don't get the 2 heats runoff. Why not simply take the whoever wants to race, and take the top 40 rankings, and be done? Everyone who is in the world champs has a UCI ranking number already.
One thing I liked is the ride whatever bike you want thing. Blevins was one of the only to ride a hard tail. That last minute of the race required pure power. Even locked out, maybe that gave him a touch of an edge? Probably not, these are pros and all that. But still kind of interesting.
Heck Avancini wouldn't have been able to race without having the opportunity to qualify via the heats. Shall we take away his silver now?
World Champs does not equal World Cup.
If they had 68 riders to whittle down to 40, then I get it. But it was like 47 down to 40.
Makes no matter to me either way. Just seems weird. My way makes it known who is eligible for the short track before the race. I’d say first 40 who show up day of get to go. Since many top ranked people skip it, you’d just keep going down the list until you fill the 40.