What?Find it a little bit annoying that Vos is skipping the more technical races, I mean she is the World Champion after all.
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What?Find it a little bit annoying that Vos is skipping the more technical races, I mean she is the World Champion after all.
She wasn't wrong though!I love Puck Pieterse interview in English, she certainly doesn't mind saying what she means
Puck: "... yeah her bike was a bit f*cked"
Interview here:
Pieterse heerst in glijpartij in Hulst, vettig parcours nekt Van Empel | sporza
De 20-jarige Nederlandse Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) heeft na Overijse ook de Wereldbekercross in Hulst naar haar hand gezet. Op een vettig parcours ging WB-leidster Fem van Empel onderuit in een afdaling, de 2e plaats was haar lot. "Het hoogst haalbare na mijn val", zei ze. Marion...sporza.be
Very normal vocabulary in The Netherlands.I love Puck Pieterse interview in English, she certainly doesn't mind saying what she means
Puck: "... yeah her bike was a bit f*cked"
Interview here:
Pieterse heerst in glijpartij in Hulst, vettig parcours nekt Van Empel | sporza
De 20-jarige Nederlandse Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) heeft na Overijse ook de Wereldbekercross in Hulst naar haar hand gezet. Op een vettig parcours ging WB-leidster Fem van Empel onderuit in een afdaling, de 2e plaats was haar lot. "Het hoogst haalbare na mijn val", zei ze. Marion...sporza.be
10% off would be too much to to win.MVdP looked about 90 percent -- clearly had fitness; made a few errors and was lucky he didn't tweak his back again. Had he not crashed early he'd have won by 45 seconds, I think. Pidcock probably suffering a bit from Saturday's effort; even up I think he gives MvdP a run for his money, or at least keeps it close. Still think that the CX-native riders are no competition for MvdP, Pidcock and Wout. Those guys just have a HUGE base of fitness.
I love Puck Pieterse interview in English, she certainly doesn't mind saying what she means
Puck: "... yeah her bike was a bit f*cked"
Interview here:
Pieterse heerst in glijpartij in Hulst, vettig parcours nekt Van Empel | sporza
De 20-jarige Nederlandse Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) heeft na Overijse ook de Wereldbekercross in Hulst naar haar hand gezet. Op een vettig parcours ging WB-leidster Fem van Empel onderuit in een afdaling, de 2e plaats was haar lot. "Het hoogst haalbare na mijn val", zei ze. Marion...sporza.be
Makes sense that she's thinking about it. It's quite clear after the past two races she's at least on the same level as Fem.Puck Pieterse denkt aan starten bij elite op WK veldrijden
Video Puck Pieterse won zondag in Hulst haar tweede wereldbekerwedstrijd op rij. Als ze op dit niveau kan blijven presteren en kan blijven winnen, is ze van plan om op het WK veldrijden in de elite-categorie mee te doen, vertelde ze na afloop van de cross aan WielerFlits. “Maar het is altijd nog...www.wielerflits.nl
Puck is considering moving to the Elites for the Worlds.
“I don't have the weight and the same power as those two (MvdP & Wout). It's hard to beat them in races like this. In addition, I am increasingly shifting focus to rankings on the road. That has advantages on the road, but disadvantages in the cross. Nevertheless, I will keep trying and the rainbow jersey will help a bit', he concludes with a smile to Bram van der Ploeg of In De Leiderstrui:
Take the U23s out of the equation, and Alvarado has had a steller season. But the three of them have raised the bar. Outside of a crash or mechanical, the 3 U23s may finish 1-3 the rest of the season. They're fun to watch.Pieterse and Van Empel are their generation’s Van der Poel and Van Aert. They took almost two minutes on the rest of the field on the first two laps at Hulst. That’s crushing it. Pieterse have some extraordinary skills and Van Empel makes up the slightly less technique with a massive endurance.
Van Anroij is absolutely fun to watch and if the other two are the VDPs/WVAs then she is definitely the female version of Van der Haar. Maybe not the most skilled but a mindset of pure grit and determination and a never surrender attitude. Hope also that Alvarado doesn’t get lost. She was always a talent but something seems to be missing?
I wouldn't say anything is missing for Alvarado. She appears to be around the same level she was when she won the world title following last season's issues if you compared her to the others that she rode against at that time. The trouble is that level doesn't quite seem to be as high as the one the van Empel, Pieterse, and van Anrooij are at.Van Anroij is absolutely fun to watch and if the other two are the VDPs/WVAs then she is definitely the female version of Van der Haar. Maybe not the most skilled but a mindset of pure grit and determination and a never surrender attitude. Hope also that Alvarado doesn’t get lost. She was always a talent but something seems to be missing?
Yes. Can remember where, but I read that Pieterse does it for that exact reason. She said she has the extra training day on the Friday whereas the rest are doing activation rides or whatever on that day.I wonder if the youngsters concentrating on just the World Cup is helping as well; so no double weekends, and spending the Saturday recceing and preparing, rather than racing, which is what a lot of the others are doing.
-So there may be some mileage in saying World-Cup is killing CX - when non-WC races are shunned by the newgen-eliteI wonder if the youngsters concentrating on just the World Cup is helping as well; so no double weekends, and spending the Saturday recceing and preparing, rather than racing, which is what a lot of the others are doing.
-So there may be some mileage in saying World-Cup is killing CX - when non-WC races are shunned by the newgen-elite
-So there may be some mileage in saying World-Cup is killing CX - when non-WC races are shunned by the newgen-elite
It's always going to look a bit smaller at the DVV trofee as they've now got a junior women's event which takes a small number off the start grid, but the bigger impact is the u23 race meaning there is a much smaller field in the elite men. This has been especially evident at the Koppenbergcross in the past when the u23 race has had over 100 riders and the elite mens has less than 30..Maybe it's just my perception but looking at the Superprestige and DVV races (and in a bigger scale this year), they don't look like having the same prestige as before. Depleted fields, the biggest stars (specially in the woman's field) don't care to ride it as much as before.