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UCI MTB World Cup (All forms!)

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Philipsen winning isn't a surprise - and is now a 2 time XCO Junior World Champion - and I will look at his lap times later. His XC relay lap time wasn't a lot slower than Braidot's......:openmouth:

Viktoria Chladinova won the women's Junior title; and after a 3rd in the CX Junior Worlds is a rider to follow. Unlike Gery & Ferguson, she doesn't seem to have WWT teams after her.

I've mentioned before that someone from DSM wanted to get in contact with Chladoňová on Instagram at one point, and DSM, Visma and Fenix-Deceuninck seem to be the only WWT teams she follows on there. That might of course not really tell us anything, but if she wants to continue in MTB, FD sounds like the best option among those 3, and she also rides on Canyon bikes already.
 
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Going through the race analysis now, it was the typical Albert Withen Philipsen race. Man posts two lap times so incredibly quick nobody can even dream of matching them, and then goes cruise control for the rest of the race. 11:53 was his fastest lap, I wonder what that will be worth on Sunday.

Here's also why we desperately need images. Anton Unger (3rd I believe in Nove Mesto) does 12:19 in the penultimate lap 4, quickest of them all by a long shot and works his way up from 13th all the way to 2nd, only to fall to 11th again in the ultimate lap 5. We can do no more than guess as to what happened there.
 
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piss poor coverage of the DH finals so far
It's that it's 4 minutes from top to bottom, but they start every 2 minutes, going out to every 5 minutes for the last 10 or 15.
Hence you only see full runs for the first rider and the last 10/15, and the first 30 sec plus the last minute for everyone else, plus 30 sec pre-start/post-finish.

All the world cups etc are the same.

The alternative is either that all runs are spaced 5 minutes apart, and the event takes much longer, or you cut the starters down to the top 30 or so via the qualifying runs
 
Riley Amos dominates all year and the annual immense favorite syndrome, losing by minutes. Couldn’t watch, thus I do not know if he crashed/had a mechanical, but it’s becoming very typical.
Don't think there was anywhere to watch. Another fail for this Worlds.
Going by instagram, he's had some illness this week......Of all the weeks to get ill.

It's why I think the motorsport version of a World championship is better.
 
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They probably had no other choice, but if the live timing is to be believed integrating the U23 with the elite is proving to be disastrous for Isa Holmgren. Tissot live timing is also seeing some major issues.

Edit: she's in the race still, but her GPS seems to be defect and she's not posting times.
 
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