UCI MTB World Cup (All forms!)

[Squire]

No way. The guys who also do XC at a top level will definitely also do extremely well (though Van der Poel wasn't absolutely dominant). The issue is the technical skills don't just add speed downhill, but protect it uphill. Pogacar could well be putting out ~10% more w/kg uphill and still getting gapped on the climbs. Besides, the fitness gap is to people like Pidcock, who is probably the third or fourth best road rider on a course like Amstel, so they're no scrubs.

Also my first time watching an MTB race, and from what I've seen so far I would agree with this.

Pidcock about to Pog this race now, I think.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Tim Podcock (as the comms call him occasionally) hitting the front now...

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Pidcock mechanical

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Not again.

 

[Didinho]

Nooo wheel change. Hope he can still turn it around.

 

[RedheadDane]

That just changed things...

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Surely that's game over for Pidcock, no?

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Surely that's game over for Pidcock, no?

Not yet, Pidders had some 'luck' that it happened so close to the zone. We've got an hour of race left, he has time.

 

[dazaau]

I'm not a big pidcock fan but that is no good to see at all. I also don't watch MTB much, it's nuts they can't swap bikes and also nuts they had to run grab a wheel...

 

[Didinho]

38”. Nothing over. Still enough time if he’s the strongest.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm not a big pidcock fan but that is no good to see at all. I also don't watch MTB much, it's nuts they can't swap bikes and also nuts they had to run grab a wheel...

If I understood the Danish commentators correctly, they wouldn't have had to if Pidcock had been able to signal that he needed a wheel.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Not yet, Pidders had some 'luck' that it happened so close to the zone. We've got an hour of race left, he has time.

Alright, thanks. I think I've only ever watched one MTB race before this one, so I'm not really into it. Good for the excitement it seems!

 

[Brullnux]

Yeah Pidcock still definitely on for a medal, possibly gold. I think Braidot also punctured on lap one.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

It has to be said that Koretzky, since the debacle of Glasgow, where he was one of the biggest victims of the UCI ruling that Pidders, Van der Poel and Sagan got a few free rows for nothing, which possibly cost him a world title, has objectively been the best XCO racer out of everyone (not counting on/off rider Pidcock).

 

[Didinho]

Not even halfway the race. Tom looks in control. Already closer.

 

[Slavique Nuke]

Koretzky was comfortable behind Pidcock before the flat, it doesn't seem so obvious to me that Pidcock is going for the gold

 

[Brullnux]

The BBC/GB coach calling MTB low hanging fruit felt very disrespectful, also.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Brilliant BBC cut to another channel and a long intro just before Pidcock changed wheels
classic, clueless

 

[Brullnux]

Pidcock not gaining much, but the three strong chase group losing a lot.

 

[dazaau]

Koretzky was comfortable behind Pidcock before the flat, it doesn't seem so obvious to me that Pidcock is going for the gold

I'm ignorant but it did seem he was able to hold the wheel during the pidcock attacks, and pidcock is now going to have to burn some matches getting back up front. Tough for pidcock from here, but there is time.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

How many laps are they doing?

 

[Squire]

Brilliant BBC cut to another channel and a long intro just before Pidcock changed wheels
classic, clueless

I've been watching on Discovery Plus, and the first ad break of the race came just before Pidcock's mechanical. Learnt about it by reading on here. When did I start getting ad breaks on a paid service?

 

[jono]

Not even halfway the race. Tom looks in control. Already closer.

Pidcock has made up some positions but not gained any time back on Koretzky since he got going again.

 

[Squire]

Pidcock has made up some positions but not gained any time back on Koretzky since he got going again.

Has even lost a few seconds. 40 seconds behind now, he was 35 or so earlier.

 

[dazaau]

How many laps are they doing?

IKR is it too much to ask to know how many km or laps or something