Final Results from the Petrópolis XC World Cup 2022

 The finish worked out perfectly for him. Letting Marotte pass him near the end before the last downhill allowed Nino to draft him to the finish and then pass at the end.

 @DoubleCrownAddict: after he made sure to stay in second on that climb when Marotte I think overtook both I knew he would get it before the finish line. All he needed was to stay second and he would figure out a way. Great race

 @DoubleCrownAddict: "Letting Marotte pass him". I've been watching again the final and I still see Nino not being able to follow Marotte's counterattack. Congrats to Nino, disappointed for Marotte who did a great race and really deserves a win in WC.

 @mi-bike: it‘s not all about Vali!

 The content from PB since outside+ is somewhere...

 Sadly, next year we'll all be wishing we still had RedBull coverage when it's even worse.

 She Fking did it!!!! Such a long time coming and so well deserved. So great to finally see her get on the top step. Amazing achievement to win won of these things.

 Criterium ?

 @marc-c: That makes sense.

XC Short Circuit?

 Corto?

 Court

 Probably kyphosis. You can even see it in old race photos from 25 years ago.

Doesn't appear to stop him, I think he still placed ~30th or so at this year's Cape Epic.

 Shes been killing it the last few seasons!

 @Themissinglink83: yup to both!

 Yep! Probably the strongest overall rider. Almost always in the top three and now her time has arrived!

 To me it appears to be completely the opposite. He went flat out in XCC and then paid the price in XCO...

 @jayjay1989: you caught my post ipa mistake, just switch the xco with xcc in my post for it to make sense.

 Doesn't make for very good wide angle shots when the horizon is only a few meters away. Thus the higher number of Head-On camera angles than we usually see. Congrats to Rebecca on her first Big Win.

 Probably not fully recovered from the cape epic

 @Willikers: yup. Similar to Pauline I believe.

 @generictrailrider: she had a lot of pop for the xcc, might have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back

 @generictrailrider: ah, turns out she was sick as well

 Kate did amazing considering she had a 4th row start. I'd be stoked with the race if I was her.

 @MDW83: yeah Kate did awesome for that start. It takes repeated strong results to get the starts that give you a shot at the podium. She had a funk last year, it happens with younger athletes as they build on their endurance and not surprising when they switch coaches. She’ll have a good career.

 @MDW83: she is stoked.
You could easily be argued that this should be a 13th place finish and that she could easily be 5 plus minutes down on the winner.

Relative to last year it could easily be argued that this is a much worse result, having finished 4th in the opening round where she is traditionally strong.

It could also be argued the reason she does well at the beginning of the season is because the rest of the field is concentrate on the middle of it to work themselves in.

Her UCI ranking climbed to 19th a month ago due to small results in Puerto Rico. After this race even though she got a ninth her reading actually fell to 21st.

That's a testament to the quality of the racing and the depth of the field.

The girls are so good technically and so fast that her win in 2019 has no relevance to them.

They are simply much faster and much better on the bike than she will ever be.

Once the big guns get back you will see how intense 1-10 will be.

If she gets a top 10 again it will be to a confluence of factors in her favor.

I see her hovering around a 20th place ranking for the rest of her career, possibly moving up to 15th on a good year.

She squandered 2+ years doing nothing to get faster, only getting healthier.

Fact of the matter is she's not a good athlete. She's an elite endurance athlete but not a good athlete. That holds her back tremendously.

She won her championship due to sheer will and being severely underweight.

Guess what the future is now and she will be remembered as a footnote in the history of the sport.

 @Willikers: loving all of your insider knowledge and all of these “facts”.

 @MDW83: sorry to continue this but Instagram randomly fed me the start of the race which I had not seen

It turns out although technically she was in the fourth row in practice there were two rows to consolidate the first 20 riders

So Courtney did not actually have to fight her way from 21st to 9th, having other riders in her way.

She was, in fact, sitting 7 ft behind number one Rider Evie Richards

The false narrative Courtney weaves is in direct contrast to what is happening. She said she was on the 4th row but can clearly see she is not

Fascinating

 @generictrailrider: please refute one or all of them

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor you know

 @generictrailrider: it's not insider knowledge at all, you only think it is. Everything is available you just have to know where to look

 @Willikers: is it Breitbart,? I bet it’s Breitbart.

 @whambat: no idea what you're talking about wink

 @Willikers: dude, why the hate on for Courtney?

 @MDW83: because of her constant need to be the center of attention, which draws attention from the media, such as pink bike, to not even mention other American athletes.
She's as much an influencer as she is former world champion, unrelenting in her self promotion. I would have commensurate respect for her achievements if she let her ride and talk for itself and worked in a smart way to get better, not over promising and under delivering.
She is also a master of double talk, contradicting herself.
She's had to delete multiple things on Instagram due to either throwing somebody selfishly under the bus inadvertently or taking the attention away from the rider whose account she left a message on. As nice as she was about it the social media monster she created has a life of its own to the detriment of other athletes.
Domestic riders Gwendalyn Gibson had an amazing result, Christopher Blevins rode extremely well last weekend but Outside/pinkbike decided they weren't worthy of the tiniest of mentions.
Haley Batten has a higher UCI rank but was not mentioned.
That's not right.
I care about the racing and the myriad fascinating stories in it; there are so many story lines to be written about that are neglected.
I see her following the same path as Yana Belomina - someone who won it once due to youth and extreme will who now languishes around UCI ranking 20th.
But mostly she has said publicly her goal is not too necessarily finish highly and can see mountain biking as a lifetime sport. Fine, simultaneously she leads people to think that she is progressing to the top of the mountain again.
It has to be one or the other, not both.
The psychological games she plays with her followers doesn't go unseen.

 seamless - didn't even notice until then, think its the first time hes commentated hat-less?

 Considering the fantasy inflation you might be able to afford 3

 So proud to root for Pierre de Froidmont, from XCC Start grid pos. 35 to XCC 13th and now XCO 6th. This guy is amazing. Go Go Pierre

 She hasn't ridden a Trek since 2016...

 Evie got the same stomach problems that got Jolanda. Probably something with the water quality but I don’t want to speculate.

 @Morganican: I was wondering that. Makes me curious if Anton Cooper will start since he missed the short track. They are all a part of the same team, so it could be water or something going around just with them since they are always close together.

 @Morganican: dont want to speculate but heres my speculation

 @Morganican: I highly doubt any of them were drinking the local water.

 @Morganican: at least 7 pb members need jokes explained to them.

 @Morganican:Even despite the fact they have tons of water's bottles to serve athletes, every home in Brazil (including the poorest ones) got water's filtering. Food preparation? I doubt, as there are hygienical protocols stronger than most of the so-called developed countries, specially on those events. If you don't want to speculate... don't speculate.

 no

 @no1000: f*ck off

 @no1000: STFU and get off the internet

 She is just not Friday or today.

 Reality has finally caught up.

 I feel like it's the best situation for the US it's been in years with Blevins on the rise and competitive at some races. Solid women's crew also. Team USA is going up!

 Troll much?

 Most of the good US riders are focused on US races. Granted those races are mostly gravel, but if there sponsors don't care and they can make a living not traveling to Europe it makes sense. However, Riley Amos is killing it in the U23 and Haley Batten has been up there all last year. Based on her Cape Epic performance I think we will see great things. Lifetime Grand Prix series also made any US racers want to focus mostly on US races.

 @Ososmash: *re: lifetime - those with a strong social media presence

 Consider how unpopular competitive cycling is here relative to Europe and South America we're doing ok.
It's getting better but if you look at high school and collegiate sports participation, cycling, let along MTB racing, doesn't even make the top dozen sports. Most of the US top athletes are out playing Ball & Stick sports.

 @Augustus-G: You can definitely not speak for all a Europe. We do have the same problem in Germany. And there's not really a roster of riders that are up there from any one European country except Switzerland, France and now Denmark plus potentially the Netherlands/UK when Van der Poel and Pidcock are racing.

 @Xaelber93: I was speaking as an overall entity and you as part of Europe are miles or kilometers should I say, ahead of us in terms of avid and competitive cyclist. Your pool of interested individuals is a much greater percentage of the population. In the US a lot of kids from 6-12 cycle but after that it falls off the cliff and only in the past several years has the NICA programs taken off beyond a couple of states. We've still got a long way to catch up even to Germany.

 It is literally part of the application process. See Geoff Kabush's Cycling Tips op-ed.

 @Augustus-G: You actually have high school bike racing (I guess only in certain schools based on geography and affluence, but still).
Here in the UK, at University level ball sports and rowing are still the only games in town.
Any university cycling team is a loose collection of students there purely on academic merit with, if they are lucky, a free jersey and race entries subsidised.