Nové Město – Men Elite XCO Highlights | 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Cup

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wait for the lights to turn green and green they go and it’s Luca Schwarz bar who blasts off and leaves them all in his wake fipo Columbo slots in behind him kety looking good alongside Alan hly as they head out on the start Loop the start Loop plus seven full laps these Riders have to do it today Tangled in there Schwarz bar meanwhile leads kety Scott sham MTB racing filipo Columbo Nino shter up alongside them as well Jord I seen first time the national outfit for him I mean the national champions kit Jordan suu from France but Victor ketki in the lead of Jersey Schwarz power next to him Columbo in front now tomed is over there one of Columbo’s big breakthrough rids was second here in 2018 in the under 23s and he’s currently leading as they head out onto the first lap proper so one of the things about this circuit is this big long start finish straight and then the second street that follows through the tech feed Zone does give people a chance to close down gaps if they want to expend the horsepower There’s Tom pitcock coming through your shot now so pitcock not too far away from the front this one for a rider of his capabilities [Music] kety who is out front and just being overtaken Now by Nino by Nino shter heads to the front of the race noo shter he won here 16 17 and 18 here we see that again you likes to be in the first position when it comes to that very SLI three technical uphill ready are right now and N is leading this [Music] group here with Victor ketki behind Nino shter here on this whoop climb this is it this is one of the toughest claims in mountain biking the whoop super climb colbo that third place another Scott shm Rider and then we have Ellen hetley Charlie alridge is over there and then Thomas leer that’s a group of five arrow straight and there is no right line to get up it it’s just a big routy staircase so difficult to get out of the saddle because traction is so limited on it but the world’s best making it look relatively straightforward shter leads kety and Columbo they’re all still together there’s Tom pitcock on the pinell dog [Music] hly hey great to watch isn’t he fantastic Rider to look at here we had Candace Le from South Africa who finished six in a women Elite race actually an excellent performance of her yeah really really good and now another South African Rider leading the race in the men hary’s best result here was a third in the under 23 race in 2018 just to give you some context so looking good so far Alan hly small gaps in between the Riders Sam gase Sam G six Place realized he kind of on his own for the time being there’s P at seven now pitock slowly moving up it’s Neo shter out front at the minute Victor kety with a yellow play off the team’s leader specialized two lines here at the bottom of this descent to set you up for I was going to say one of the toughest climbs in the course but they’re all tough around here and I agree I think this is the toughest I mean we’ve got the long the the whoop super climb you know but this is just a little bit steeper a little bit rougher but this climb makes the Riders also nervous because we have two different lines and it takes a while before they come back together actually and if you took the wrong line or rather in front of you is making a mistake it’s hard to overtake it cost you a lot of time sh are starting to ask questions of Victor kety and all those AR him at the front pitcock again rolls past hly and is back in touch with Aldridge again Aldridge just struggling with that pace of shter then just dropping off a little bit leave in the Gap kety always there second place not pushing too much effort into the rid so far it’s Ino shoter now who pushing hard Ellen Hatley did that before but here’s an attack from Tom pencock now Tom Pitcock run the outside of Victor keski and Nino shter wow so this is the most Road type climb on the circuit and this is where he’s going to use that road strength from power and his strength to power to Rao response doesn’t look like he’s going to let him have it all his own way here you know ket’s going with the two of them but look at the Gap they’ve just opened in one climb yeah yeah but they responds n responding and also gki ket’s just struggling to follow on this one and immediately well we know 15 seconds for Charlie aldrid we know from Arisha that Victor kety has got plenty of reserves of power to go deep into a race but it’s the UCI cross country world champion Tom Pitcock on a track that he loves like no other it’s KY fighting currently leading away kety the alarm bells are ringing in here oh and N knows it’s time he can’t wait and in classic never MTO fashion a steep climb is followed immediately by a steep descent yeah the suspension have to work really well here on these descents the bike setup so important Tom pig CAU then through this slightly flatter wooded section it’s still fast though and you still have to work the tra for every single ounce of speed n still there yeah he didn’t drop him it’s going back to him R Victor katki and it’ be interesting to see now obviously is the section where you can get some road type slipstream and Pig’s not asking Nino for help he’s just driving it now tucking down arrow position in towards the stem there’s not much off Tom pitock anyway very very small frontal area let’s see there is K comes ketki wow what a lap I would almost say maybe a technical problem but it’s not no don’t say that kety crosses the line 14 seconds [Music] back and then that chasing group but that Jason is coming back to Victor ketki so we are just wondering Carlson reporting from course that kety has been looking down at the back of the bike whether it’s rear tire looks all right yeah he’s looking to his rear tire more and more head to-head now with Nino shter so oh very different course that day as well it was wet was and tricky I mean it’s always tricky here but but that’s not the first time for n that he has been battling like this before here in no master it was with yav kav as well I remember yeah one of the most famous battles on this very clim where kve blasted past him one of the two of the big checks wins here in noo yeah kki CAU by the chasing group yeah really cemented yl kav as a national hero that one commentating for the check TV now today is happening so we’re up against today is that battling again yav kav Olympic gold medalist uccii cross country marathon world champion but speaking of gold medalists and world champions topcock on the move again this is trouble for Nino sh he looks over the shoulder never a good sign never a good sign that’s true wow he’s still swinging at it you know as well Tom pedco on lap four out of seven here in no Namar he felt the confidence what he said in the interview before the start can he become the first person to win four consecutive races here in Nova Mesto Namar in Cross Country [Applause] [Music] Olympic free to go yeah left time around 10 30 then 40 let’s get a Time Gap here back to Nino shter then and see what way it’s [Music] going shter across the line 15 seconds back of Tom pitock you can see Tom pitock right hand side of here shot there through the tech feed zone so this group behind them this is the battle for third place and kety still with them so this one still big names in there of Plenty hly Columbo schwar kety G Fluker hren Charlie ald just rolling through your shot now stretching the back out fler attacking now in the red looking in front of s Gayo who is last Rider of this group but through the secondini in that line and that green kid is coming back to the chasing group karini really strong at the end of last season we haven’t seen the best of him yet so far this year but Schwarz B is really victori Dro back more and more and matauro as well oh yeah Mauro here is yeah so I think the pH of that group back a little bit ket’s in 12 now this is Marcel guini the number 23 on his back Tom pedco who is just ticking off the sections see if he can ride up this one the expert climb one how they call it without a problem at all nice sort of line up the right side that is how you do that and this is the one which is a technical climb but if you’ve got good power you can carry there’s a little false flat before it that’s all and you can push you can accelerate there if you’ve got all the power that’s how it is you you take more momentum in and then you’re off it it makes it easy but it’s so hard to do it see if you know just this little flat section and now you need to get a bit of a drive and then push up through on the top but it’s so much drier than the women’s RAC imagine he does it out of the SLE even yeah imagine how many times Nino shter has been up that CL though it’s true well six of seven the whoop super climb yeah you can almost see and feel how hard it is to make this climb M Driving on now Ma aoro matis aoro is looking here here’s on his bike here’s the overt for third playar then yeah you think auro didn’t get to ride he’s low enough ranked that he didn’t get to ride the short track race he just had to start at his grid position or his UCI rank in 55th the first franch rider in the race wow mat fluger superb on The Descent as ever wow yeah what a ride this is from matis haaru I say he got form on the course last year top 20 but yeah to turn that into a top five today different thing one more lap final lap final lap for Tom Pitcock crosses line is he going to go four in a row in Cross Country Olympic World Cups in Nova mesle narave the go the greatest of all time Nino shter is in second place and he’s matching him 262k average that Circ gini is back with these looker have to take a double take over his shoulder there third place then this is not the battle we thought we’re going to get but this is what we’ve got it’s fluger versus aaro versus gini gini now into third place another Swiss Rider is he able to catch back along side as Swiss Olympic selectors are throwing their clipboards out the window this a big climb for pig cup now this is the last we got two climbs left this is a big one you know if you can get up this one you can see Nino’s well in shot and will be able to see him on this climb it just it’s 22 seconds it’s 22 seconds on my clock Nino out the saddle attacking sprinting oh it is a bit deceptive this camera angle but the goat has acquired his Target he’s still Invision for him yeah yeah and that makes such a difference if you can see the rider in attacking this CL you can read the body language of the rider in front of you if you can see him 19 seconds now is Nino shter about to pull off one of the most most remarkable wins in his career it’s a big ask but if there is a rider on this Earth capable of doing it it’s that man he kept it put the pressure on him gini attacking now Marcel gini for’s performance race team matis aoro behind him but is there ped coock monster his way up that climb huge effort and I said it maybe did just get a word from someone that you need to put this one the bed because Nino’s up to 27 seconds now anyway second place gini through the TCH Zone fastest guy on course at the moment 58 seconds back so he’s within the same minute now wow what does it mean for the Swiss Riders if gini finished third place for the qualification Olympics in Paris this man does what he does best he wins bike races tom pedco heads towards one of his favorite places the star finish straight off the VIS sha Arena and clears the bridge for good measure Tom Pitcock to make it a fantastic four in a row for Tom Pitcock in noao Namar absolutely Undisputed they never got near him Tom pincock makes it for on a bounce [Music] wow chter takes a second place look who’s and F what marel com celebrates the place behind him but Charlie alridge just I think Charlie alridge had home AO ahead of matis aoro here he is though the king of noao Namar he’s made this place his own personal fight [Music] them here’s the results pitcock shurter gini Aldridge azaro Fluker Schwarz bar holgren hly Forster