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    He doesn't even drink coffee, let alone booze
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    And ffs the oke is only 22!
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    Yes he hasn't done much CX this season, its a side show to his road career now with a focus on the classics. His CX target was Worlds and well that worked out well init. He got beat at the muddy Namur but that was a good race. When he was at Trinity they did a vlog after each race, that was fun and a good insight.
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    Tom has won lots of CX races in the mud
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    There always is a variety of tracks in cyclocross, this one is fast because it was dry, some big climbs, technical bits, qute a bit of stopping and starting, and those steps really test the running legs. Led to good racing in my opinion. Others will do better in wetter and muddier tracks (ie Clara), but Brand and Vos do well no matter what you throw at them. At the World Cup here last year it was wet and and a mud fest, Ms Vos lost it (and a podium spot) down of those sweeping descents, but she was certainly the best yesterday, certainly in the game towards the end. Although I was rooting for Lucinda, she had been winning all season, Vos dips in an out of cross, but that's the way it goes. No doubts VOS is the GOAT
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    https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1487116913666834436
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    "Egan Bernal has received an excellent response to treatment and has tolerated extubation without any complications. He is conscious, with mobility of all four extremities. step by step"
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    Horrible crash ... been a big fan. Waiting for news, that spinal injury sounds kinda serious. I don't think its appropriate to post pics and videos of the crash 👎
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    Yeah its a long walk back if you have a flat and left your spare and tools behind. If you are riding by yourself, just don't take risks on those downhills.
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    Does a double lap include the small loop?
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    Probably a combination of broken bone fatigue and winning fatigue, compounded by the weight of expectations. There must be a head space struggle to deal with that, when you not on the podium and everyone expects you to be,
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    Mens has def. become more open once Nino got beaten, But ladies elites last year was dominated by Loana (less so at the end of the season), lets hope for not knowing who is going to win and several lead changes in each race. A very exciting young rider is 19 year old Puck Pieterse, who has been at the front with the elites in the CX season, her bike handling skills are incredible. Apparently she will be doing mtb this seadon, so watch out for her name in the U23's. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/20-minutes-with-your-favourite-cx-racers-puck-pieterse/id1532785341?i=1000547775226
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    Christopher Blevins and Hayley Batten now on Team Spez - should see some results there.
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    Piddles is talking of triple .. he has a good chance in Fayetteville since Woutkop won't be there and MdvP is still licking his wounds from last mtb season.
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    What about Sparkle Watts? will she find some form and results? She must have been very disappointed with last season, no results to speak of fresh out of being a World Champ and World Cup winner I worry about all these U23's that come into the Elites all guns blazing, win everything for a while and then it seems all over before their Elite careers have really begun ... burn out? Will Loana go the same way? She was def. lights out at the end of last season. Sensational Blanka Kata Vas with the Spez Works team has been closely managed this CX season I think to avoid this scenario, she took a few months break (obligatory) - hope to see her mix it up on the MTB, Remember she was 4th in the Olympics. But maybe road will be her focus.
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    Went the way of the dodo .... here in GP anyway. Lion Man, Crater Cruise, Magies Monster and more, big and small. I think Baberton is the only one day event of significance to survive (highly recommend!), now in May. What happened? Some part of it may have been when a certain group that ran a certain series sponsored by car company bought rights to other independent events and closed them down to focus on the bigger ones. They also started to play with the format, making some events two day, The shorter 40/20k events on the same day as the big attraction on the Saturday. Which ruled out a chilled Sunday ride with the family. Also it was all going horns with MTN sponsorship, then that stopped, then that financial group stepped in, what with MTB being the new golf, and as soon as I say the VIP tent in the finish area I knew is was the end of an era. So events became a big show, cost lots of money to lay on and without a headline sponsor they were unsustainable. Could also be the times we live in: people less inclined to travel out of town on a regular basis for safety, economic and other reasons. Me. MTB could well be less of a fad than it became. Pop will eat itself. Will we ever learn?
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    They should include a hearse in that line up of support vehicles for those who are not in top condition
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    Definitely - escape the clutches of winter for the tale end of a Mediterranean summer, but the decision was not up to the athletes, and really we can't expect common sense to prevail.
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    I'm not surprised the Stellies XCO was a once-off, as awesome as it was. Unless there is money to be made, its not going to happen. CSA/ Provisional/ National $upport: forget it. It was a side show to the Epic, and probably ran at a loss. Unless I got it wrong. Pity: from what I could gather athletes liked to come: not too big a travel from Europe, same time zone, and lets face it, Cape Town is a great place to visit. My biggest complaint about the XCO season is that its too short.
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    Tom has beaten them both before, but yeah those boys haven been dominating, although MvdP seems to still have some time still to recover now from what looks like some deeply embedded injury. I don't think he will make Worlds. If Wout goes, it could be said and done but he hasn't committed, Tom has. Wout is just exceptional now BUT Tom is perhaps the only one who can really challenge him, it was close on Saturday as well. Wout just has the power to come through later in the race (if he was not in front to begin with), much like Lucinda.
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    Thomas Pidcock MBE mind you .... Although Wout did have some seriously bad luck with that stuck chain, but a win is a win. Great course today in Hulst, I love how a seventeenth century fort has been repurposed as a cyclocross track. Brand is just something else. true champion.
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    Maybe they trying to do too much ... the team was originally built around CX and Tom Piddlycock, I think it lost its way a bit after he left and they were doing CX, MTB and what else. Also in terms of resources, Chris was saying how resourceful he had to be for bikes this last season, I reckon he is headed to a more well provisioned team like the Spez factory team, or maybe the road? Not that I am a Spez fan it should he said. Maybe Trinity will stick to cross, they had a U23 win (on Tuesday?) with Cameron Haley I have no idea ....
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    Yeah that win by Mr Piddles was sensational, his first UCI World Cup win and first for a Brit, great racing. Lead change many times. Eli took some effort to beat. And in the ladies as well, Vos shows she is the boss, the only one that seems to really be able to challenge Brand's power. But Denise rode well to come back from a bad start, don't know what she can do about Vos and Lucinda.. except tactics. Namur today! Fresh off camber section apparently. Muddy cobbles. Bring it on!
  25. kosmonooit
    Namur this weekend! This is a biggie bros, not to be missed. Everyone who is anyone will be there except MvdP with his knee problem and I think Wout is on a training camp. Piddles will be there, New re-minted USA Champ Clara, Brand, and Blanka!
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