Qualifying Results from the Vallnord DH World Cup 2022
After a loose and dusty practice and Timed Training session on the new Vallnord course riders are back between the tape to fight for the top qualifying spots ahead of tomorrow's racing. Nina Hoffmann and Loris Vergier went fastest in timed training, but qualifying is where we will really see how fast riders can hit the course. Will we get some fresh faces at the top of the timings today?
Stay tuned as the Elite Men's results come in from qualifying at the fifth round of the 2022 World Cup series.
Live Timing can be found here.
Results:
Elite Women
1st. Camille Balanche: 3:13.633
2nd. Nina Hoffmann: 3:15.255
3rd. Myriam Nicole: 3:15.534
4th. Vali Höll: 3:17.054
5th. Eleonora Farina: 3:18.150
Elite Men
1st. Loris Vergier: 2:46.926
2nd. Amaury Pierron: 2:47.265
3rd. Loic Bruni: 2:47.858
4th. Finn Iles: 2:48.318
5th. Aaron Gwin: 2:48.648
Junior Women
1st. Phoebe Gale: 3:26.602
2nd. Jenna Hastings: 3:32.022
3rd. Gracey Hemstreet: 3:35.183
4th. Izabela Yankova: 3:38.924
5th. Valentina Roa Sanchez: 3:39.220
Junior Men
1st. Jackson Goldstone: 2:52.881
2nd. Tegan Cruz: 2:55.509
3rd. Nathan Pontvianne: 2:55.795
4th. Ryan Pinkerton: 2:55.846
5th. Bodhi Kuhn: 2:55.995
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Anyway, looks like the intense bike is finally up to speed.
We shared with Troy Brosnan & Mark Wallace.
And btw, nationality means nothing to me.
Yup, this analogy sucks!
Been 20 years since world history, someone people enlighten me if I’m incorrect.
@Mattysville come on
Pretty big difference to the Minnaar fanbase saying stuff like "Holy crap a podium finish at age 40! Never Count out Minnaar!"
Personally I'd be stoked to see Gwin back as a consistent top 5 or 10 rider, but he is not there yet. This year is a great start though.
1. Most vocally pro-religious professional cyclists ever, early in his career. Seemed to think winning World cup races would empower to convert non-believing mountain bikers(exuse me while I vomit).
2. Constant and consistent controversies about team contracts and other drama.
3. Promoted the debunked Ivermectin drug during the pandemic. Only idiots did that, sorry.
4. Obvious Trumper.
5. Bragged about being a millionaire while pretending to be that humble Christian.
I respect him because he's fast, but if you take away all those World Cup wins, he's just a Trumper that says 'dude' alot.
Sometimes fans ge to into famous peoples personal space.
Must be hard to deal with when you are focused on results.
He went from being almost unbeatable to struggling badly. Big crashes, injuries or just poor results. I'm sure it played massively on his mind and I was upset to see such a formidable racer just fading away. Therefore I'm delighted to see him back at the sharp end of things.
Also, US riders stacking up the finale in that SoCal dirt. Dooley in 19th, Grice jumps from 61st & first man out, to 57th last week and leaps to 27th this week. Wrist finally getting healthy for Grice Krispy. Then Silva 42nd, Neko slotting in again at 51 with a hand that's getting better too.
Man...if only Luca hadn't popped a bone, we'd probably be looking at 3 US riders in the top 10. Go #merica
And i love Aaron Gwinn! its the south that sucks LOLOL
Once riders can hit "Protected" status, it opens up a lot of opportunity. Dooley and Silva are chipping away and I wish both luck.
It's no coincidence that Gwin just easing back in to the point that others fell off while he stayed consistent and healthy this year resulted in protected status 2 weeks in a row and exponential improvement.
Here's hoping all the US riders keep all their wrists and ribs in one piece this week.
Not so much.
Mint comparison.
As for women I didn't say that women competitors are not competitive, far from that. But women as a bunch tend to be less competitive with each other and more supportive with each other than men tend to be. My partner is doing a lot of sport, bike included which allowed me to discover how female tend to do things and they tend to have a different approach than us, at least in climbing and biking between low to confirmed levels. Competitors are competitors which is a different breed than most of us and it seems that the gap is smaller between guys and race guys, as we tend to all be a bit competitive while it is less true for women. Not taking in consideration that women are not just dudes with boobs might be sexist but mostly retarded. A whole field of sport science is being developped just because up until recently scientist just considered women like men and the lack of transferability is pretty bad since our hormones are stables, women's hormones cycle for instance, so does mood, anxiety, and so on. But sure we are the same.
You and @Mntneer: need to get a room.
Although GM got his start in World Cup earlier, both have eerily similar win totals, win patterns and streaks at similar ages during their careers. Not perfect mirror images, but identical enough that it wasn't hard to see when I posted. Maybe I can find it again.
Since we don't have Downhill News Media who do really good research or any data historians to speak of.
Fingers crossed she's starting prep for the comeback process.
Just to race without that pin in his hand, he had to have a SECOND surgery to remove the pin from the same doctor who inserted it without it having an exposed extraction. So he broke it. Screwed it. Healed. Unscrewed it. And was racing while it was healing from the 2nd surgery. Pretty gnarly from what his friends described.
And people forget he's not in a factory tent this year.
Trumpore....does he even have 2 pits like the other teams for this event or is he having to run back and forth like John Hall was saying would be a pain?
Bernard Kerr is doing well too,his videos are really good.
Finn is looking good to me,really fast really consistent.
Ton of Spanish riders in Andorra,good to see Pau close to the top again!
It would be henry kerr that DNF.
But the quali run was good,I saw his video a few minutes ago.
No bike till dark cos it is a suicide mission in Madrid.
In Andorra you would need sunscreen in 1 liter format if you do not wanna be a crab color like person. You would get toast in no time. Heat it is an issue cos riders and trails suffer a lot.
Come finals, the track roughness won't be as much for her. Now...if only I stood to make a ton of money off that prediction.
Edit: Nevermind, he's protected. It didn't show the protected status on the Vital results sheet.
Antoine Rogge qualified 38th but consider: Last week he qualified 34th and posted a 17th place finish. He's only 20 years old. Who knows how well he'd be doing if he had a team behind him.
And: In the juniors, Bodhi Kuhn qualified 5th. He's 7th in points despite only racing 3 times so far this year.
That Goldstone is as fast as anyone on the planet--and that's surprising--is the most tepid take in MTB. The guy has been riding bikes down hills since he was a newborn. He's probably got more DH bike time than many elite racers do, in amazing terrain and surrounded by the best riders on the planet. I cannot imagine fast-biker cultivation conditions that are LESS surprising, really.
Thought it was average speed, but that does not make sense.
When he starts winning again and is always threatening for the win - will that pressure start to force their errors??!!
How bout when Gwin and Dak are both on the podium.
I think the French boys are gonna crack.
Can’t wait to count how many downvotes I get