Mountain Bike Cycling UCI World Cup 2019

[heywoodu 13,540]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Didn't Bruna almost become a mountain biker herself?

She actually was a mountain biker until a serious heart condition forced her to stop immediately (followed by, after a long time, basically a piece of metal being inserted in her heart* that's still there and thanks to which she was able to get back to being an athlete....rolling into the world of winter sports, mixing it for a short while and then saying goodbye to MTB - for now)  

 

*

Spoiler

In a surgery that was made possible partially due to Jaqueline Mourão's work and contacts back in those years.

 

[heywoodu 13,540]

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

MTB commentator getting his seconds and hundreths of seconds mixed up.

 

"She was faster by... 2 hundreths?!"

Yeah that made me stare at my screen as if I had become dumb  

[heywoodu 13,540]

Five persion podium, there it is.

[heywoodu 13,540]

Damn it, down goes the first Dutch women's win ever (?) in the last lap due to what looks like a mechanical  

[phelps 6,780]

exciting last lap, with a lot of position changes (some due to pure luck, many others not)...

[phelps 6,780]

this week's Short Circuit events go to:

 

Women's SC X-CO

Gold: Chloe Woodruff

Silver: Annie Last

Bronze: Jolanda Neff

 

Men's SC X-CO

Gold: Mathieu Van Der Poel

Silver: Maxime Marotte

Bronze: Henrique Avancini

[phelps 6,780]

Stage #2 (Nove Mesto, CZE)

 

Women's Cross-Country Race

Gold: Kate Courtney

Silver: Rebecca Ellen McConnel

Bronze: Haley Smith

[heywoodu 13,540]

Holy crap, Van der Poel pulling a 15 second gap to Schurter in a barely one minute climb    

[heywoodu 13,540]

What. A. Beast.

 

 

[dcro 10,179]

Those who fly high, fall deep is a well known phrase.