UCI MTB World Cup (All forms!)

[Wyndbrook]

Most championship (Olympics/Euros, etc) courses seem to follow a certain pattern; mainly 'man made' close to a city, and easy for TV cameras to film footage. The Euros in Krakow was similar; reclaimed from ex-mining works - this is similar. The easiest solution would have been to go to the French Alps, but then it's not Paris......

I agree, although Tahiti is not very close to Paris, but it's the venue for the surfing.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

No PFP for Snowshoe World Cup; she's racing the Gravel Euros in Belgium.......

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[ManicJack]

No PFP for Snowshoe World Cup; she's racing the Gravel Euros in Belgium.......

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She caught the Covid

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Yeah, so that puts her Gravel Worlds defence in doubt; and probably that's her season done - unless she does some CX later in the year.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Puck's course recon. Meets up with a rainbow girl!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixr8pMEvftg

 

[DNP-Old]

So at what point are we going to acknowledge that Koretzky likely would have been world champion* if not for UCI antics?

*: Pidcock mechanical.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

It's a good discussion point - but I also think Gaze started similarly way back on the grid - and finished 2nd

Koretzky won 2 XCO World Cups in 2021 (Albstadt & Lenzerheide), finished 3rd in the Worlds and I think may have been ranked No1 for a short time. Then went to B&B Hotels, and that form deserted him for most of 2022. However, he's now in super form, and is the man to beat. I would love to know if being at Bora is benefitting him, as this form seems better than his 2021 peak.

 

[Wyndbrook]

So at what point are we going to acknowledge that Koretzky likely would have been world champion* if not for UCI antics?

*: Pidcock mechanical.

I don't think we do, he was just behind Pidock on lap two and he was riding in 5th spot for quite a while, as far back as lap four, when Gaze came by he was unable to keep up.

 

[Ripper]

So at what point are we going to acknowledge that Koretzky likely would have been world champion* if not for UCI antics?

*: Pidcock mechanical.

Nope

 

[Ripper]

Big win for Carter Woods!
🙂🙂🙂

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Two nice U23 races -and both Overall titles are still to be decided with wins for Carter Woods & Samara Maxwell. Boichis has to follow Woods next week - whereas the women's is between Blochinger & Maxwell.....

One has to say that Sofie Pedersen has been on the slide since the Worlds; not surprising as she's been racing since early in the year - she's obviously run out of steam.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Puck UCI XCO WorldCup champion
with one race to spare

 

[Ripper]

Nice races in the elite ranks!

 

[jmdirt]

Homer hat on: BLUNK!

N1no looking pretty solid for another WC overall!

 

[ManicJack]

Homer hat on: BLUNK!

N1no looking pretty solid for another WC overall!

She is having a great second half of the season.

 

[Ripper]

Homer hat on: BLUNK!

N1no looking pretty solid for another WC overall!

It could be tight between Nino and Jordan

 

[Axel Hangleck]

It could be tight between Nino and Jordan

It's currently 89 points.....I think it will go down to the XCO race; Nino goes well there, and Jordan said he likes the track, so we could get a nail biter.

 

[jmdirt]

Norton close again!

 

[Wyndbrook]

Cycking Weekly reporting Pidcock to race the Little Sugar 100k Mtb in Arkansas on 15th.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Rumoured XC World Cup calendar for 2024:

XCO World Cup 2024: proposed dates and venues​

• April 13-14 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
• April 20-21 - Araxa, Brazil
• May 8-12 - European Championship
• May 16-19 - World Masters Championship - Cairns - Australia
• May 25-26 - Nove Mesto Na Morave, Czechia
• June 14-16 - Val di Sole, Italy
• June 22-23 - Cras Montana, Switzerland
• 05-07 July - Les Gets, France
• July 28-29 - Olympic Games Paris, France
• August 17-18 - Valkemburg, Netherlands
• August 28 - September 1 - Vallnord World Championship
• September 27-29 -Lake Placid, USA
• October 5-6 - Mont Sainte Anne, Canada

Ya conocemos el Calendario de la Copa del Mundo UCI XCO 2024 y estrena sedes en Brasil, Europa y EE.UU

La UCI acaba de dar a conocer un pre-calendario para la Copa del Mundo MTB 2024.

www.brujulabike.com

 

[DNP-Old]

Boichis wins the World Cup. Overall, nobody can say he didn't deserve it. By far the most consistent all year. Just a tad disappointing it didn't come to a direct confrontation with Woods today.

 

[Axel Hangleck]

Boichis wins the World Cup. Overall, nobody can say he didn't deserve it. By far the most consistent all year. Just a tad disappointing it didn't come to a direct confrontation with Woods today.

And will move to the Elites for next year......presumably with Trinity.

In other news from her instagram page, no Evie for the XCO race - emptied herself in the XCC when sick and is on her way home.

 

[Ripper]

Boichis wins the World Cup. Overall, nobody can say he didn't deserve it. By far the most consistent all year. Just a tad disappointing it didn't come to a direct confrontation with Woods today.

Indeed, that was a bad crash for Carter. I hope he's okay. He's had a couple of pretty nasty wipeouts this year.

On a different note, they need to pair up a different announcer with Bart for next year.

 

[Ripper]

And on another tangent, course conditions looking epically nasty. It will be interesting to see if the elites are running even more of the course than the U23's

 

[postmanhat]

And on another tangent, course conditions looking epically nasty. It will be interesting to see if the elites are running even more of the course than the U23's

Was beginning to think we won't be seeing Neff near the pointy end of a race much more, but these conditions seem ideal for a Jolanda masterclass.