Cyclocross season 2024/2025
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WvA has announced that he is doing worlds after all
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I guess that really does make second place the win for the rest of the pack.
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The women's racing has been better all season.
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I like MVdP but boy does he kill the race. He should have some kind of handicap to make it more interesting. Really missed Pidcock and a competitive WVA (in comparison to MVdP) this season.
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I think that is partly down to the editing for the TV. It is understandable that a lot of the time they will focus on MvdP, after all he is winning the race and his sponsors won't be happy if he doesn't get the majority of the screen time, after all that is what they are paying for. However it is frustrating when you can see changes of position are happening further down the field which you aren't getting to see on the screen. I was especially frustrated watching Hulst when most of the time the only indication of Cam Mason's progress was the bar at the bottom of the screen or the occasional reference made by one of the commentators.
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I came on here expecting to see more about Zoe Backstedt's great race at Maasmechelen which she could have won if she didn't choose to change her bike at the last pits. In her interview she said she didn't want to take a chance on the bike letting her down, and obviously Blanka Vas thought it worth the risk.. The conditions were horrible, perfect for a great cyclocross race.
Are the conditions going to be similar at the World Championships in Liévin? If so, Zoe should be in with a shout of wearing the rainbow bands next season.
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Zoe Backstedt is riding U23 at worlds AFAIK
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Of course she is, as discussed we have no elite women, it had slipped my mind. It's a shame, it doesn't look as if Marie Schreiber is going to be able to put up much of a fight. I'd much rather have watched her racing in the elite competition.
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Elsewhere I've seen suggestions she wasn't totally happy about racing u23 but that it was what BC wanted. No idea if that's true or not, but it wouldn't be out of standard BC practice to pull something like that, to pretty much bank an u23 medal for the KPIs
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If she chose to move up to Elite, I don’t think there is anything BC could do about it, so, respectfully, I think that’s likely to be bollocks. BC would have a good chance of a medal without Backstedt anyway, as the other three riders - Ferguson, Wolff and Maclean-Howell - are all capable of it.
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She should be riding Elite now.
Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.0 -
Cyclocross medals mean nothing anyway (in terms of funding) as it's not an Olympic sport
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I've not seen anything to suggest the ban on pro team riders racing in the U23 road worlds is going to be rolled out in other disciplines, more's the pity. Is Zoe really going to be happy racing in the U23s for another 2 years?
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True, but WVA has more than a puncher's chance at the WC in possibly rainy muddy conditions. Course would probably need to require a lot of running though.
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GB win the mixed relay from Italy and France
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I read somewhere that the course was so wet they stopped people reccying it.
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Pictures and videos form today’s Team Relay race, won by GB by the way, suggest otherwise. There’s mud for sure, but the course is a long way from being waterlogged.
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There were also lots of social media posts yesterday of riders doing course recons, so I don’t think what you read was completely accurate.
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It was on the Cycling News web page. It say due to heavy rainfall parts of the course are closed prior to warm up. It’s still showing as of a minute ago.
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It doesn’t look too bad from this video:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFfrg6uJzuJ/?igsh=MTJ1N29wOGpieXBxYw==
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Puck did a filmed recce on the course.
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An exciting women's Junior race, as they have been all season; home favourite Revol won ahead of the Czech rider who seemingly celebrated a lap early, with Canadian World Cup winner Carrier in 3rd.
Men's U23 sees an all Benelux podium; with Del Gross a class apart beating Belgians De Bruykere & Michels; a shame the first year Italian Viezzi missed out on a medal.
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Women’s Elite was a blinder.
Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.1 -
A pity Van Empel won; and totally undeserved......she brings nothing to the sport.
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I was rooting for Brand but I think that is very harsh on FVE
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How on earth was that totally undeserved? She took the race on from the start and was able to close down Brand's attack on the last lap and a half. She was definitely the strongest on the day. As she was last year and the year before.
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Pass the Dutchie 'pon the left hand side... but one has to also be one of them.
Good watch of the womens' elite. Gonna miss this sort of thing, courtesy the $37bn debt carrying USanian moneygrubbing bastards.
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Watching the men jnr now and the course is frozen hard and very quick at the mo
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Big crash for the guy who took an early lead, looked like he might have popped a collarbone
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