The Vikings are HERE! Be afraid. *possible spoilers* *definite pillaging *
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I didn't actually get to see it, so I might be wrong, but you get some weird stuff like that - e.g. that Tour stage where Roglic crashed and got the same time as (can't actually remember, Remco?) - the finish was a decent climb for a puncheur but it wasn't categorised, so the 3km rule stood
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Should probably have remembered to add Mads P's two stages and GC win in the Lidl Tour of Germany here, which was just Lidl-Trek dominance (won every stage, the GC and the points).
Lidl-Trek getting more Danish Dynamite next season as Søren Kragh Andersen joins on a two year contract
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Do we know where Cecille Uttrup Ludwig will be riding next year yet? She's out of contract with FDJ-Suez at the end of the year and with the arrival of Labous, plus the expectation that Vollering is also heading that way, I'm assuming she's moving elsewhere.
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I think the rumour was Canyon-SRAM but no idea yet really
Asbjørn Hellemøse, who was with Trek until 2023 then went off and did some gravel when he didn't get a renewal is joining Jayco-Alula
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The production line is still working....
Aside from Danes taking the full GC podium, Anton Louw and Theodor Clemmensen both won stages and Noah Lindholm won the youth, points and mountain jerseys.
This is a race that includes Pidcock, MvdP, Simmons, Kämna, Oomen, Hirschi, Gougeard and Jungels in it's recent(ish) winners
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It clashed with the Giro della Lunigiana so most of the top juniors (Seixas, Finn, Álvarez and, of course, the unfortunate Jakob Omrzel) were missing. Clemmensen and Møller Andersen are worth keeping an eye on though.
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I've only just realised that the team Clemmensen and Møller Andersen are riding for (GRENKE - Auto Eder) is the Red Bull U19 team so I'd expect to see both riding in the espoirs for the new Red Bull U23 team alongside Lorenzo Finn and, if rumours are to be believed, Jarno Widar. That's potentially a hell of a team.
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It's just been pointed out to me that Møller Andersen is unlikely to be riding for the Red Bull U23 team next year as he'll still be a junior! His results this year are very impressive for a first year junior.
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Skjelmose has suffered a set back today, having crashed out of the Luxembourg tour.
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Poor timing with the worlds coming up
Mads P won the stage in a sprint v MvdP though, so some Viking good news
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Simon Andreassen - XC Marathon World Champion; sadly, as is usual for XC Marathon, no coverage provided by the organisers.
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Why is that in the US and not held at same time as the rest of the MTB in Andorra? I'm not sure I've ever seen any marathon MTB, I guess it's not that easy to televise, being off-road point to point. Andreassen apparently came from the back row, how much of a disadvantage is that in marathon, if at all?
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It's never held at MTB Worlds, except last year at 'Super' Worlds - where it was on the same day as the men's Elite Road race.
It's up to the local organiser to arrange live coverage; last year there wasn't any, Denmark in 2022 had a fixed camera mid-way through the lap, and a fixed camera on the finish line. Elba, Italy in 2021 had live coverage for the last 2 hours on Eurosport Player......
Gridding in Marathon is not that important; a 100km race over 4 hours; the Marathon specialists, tend to be pure diesels, whereas the XCO racers have a bit more explosivity to make up any poor gridding.
MvdP was 4th in Austria in 2017.....
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Cheers. Seems strange to hold it separately, though I guess there might be a few that do Olympic, short track and marathon, which might be hard to fit in as a rider in a single event?
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PFP won all 3 back in 2022....XCC & XCO at MTB Worlds, then XC Marathon a month later........
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