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This year, the UCI will be issuing World Cup titles to the Elite Women’s and Elite Men’s top racers in the Cross-Country Short Track competitions.
Below you can see the current rankings for this new points category following this past weekend’s World Cup event in Albstadt, Germany.
It looks like Nino Schurter has a serious challenger this year, as Olympic champion Thomas Pidcock looks to be the strongest racer in the men’s ranks right now. Nino needs only one more victory to surpass Julien Absalon on the all-time win list for XCO World Cups. We expect he’ll get it sooner or later, but he didn’t get it this weekend. We’ll see what happens in the next few months. Pidcock looks to be one of the toughest competitors Nino has ever faced. Meanwhile, Rebecca McConnell is looking like she’s the woman to beat this year, as she’s now won the first two World Cup XCO races of the year.
The USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships and High School Festival will be taking place in Winter Park, Colorado, from July 18th-24th this year. Here’s the link to find out more: https://usacycling.org/events/national-championships/2022-mtb-nationals
The second day of the Sea Otter proved to be a visual feast for the Sea Otter’s video team.
Switzerland’s Camille Balanche and France’s Amaury Pierron came out on top as the 2022 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup downhill season started in style at Lourdes in France.
Stage 3 of the Absa Cape Epic was another true marathon stage that was over 100 kilometers long. In the Men’s category, Speed Company Racing delivered on their Prologue promise of being here to “take over” as they stormed to the stage win ahead of Toyota-NinetyOne-Specialized’s Matt Beers and Chris Blevins.
Stage 2 of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic marked the longest stage of this year’s race. The men’s race was decided in a nail-biting sprint finish. Nino Schurter (SUI) and Lars Forster (SUI) of SCOTT-SRAM were heading towards the finish line in the lead, but Christopher Blevins (USA) overtook them. His partner Matt Beers (RSA) could not go with him, so SCOTT-SRAM took the stage win.
The 2022 Downhill World Cup season starts this weekend in Lourdes, France. Who will win? Could it be Greg Minnaar, Loic Bruni, or somebody else?
Andreas Seewald and Martin Stošek of Canyon Northwave MTB were unstoppable on Stage 1 of the 2022 Absa Cape Epic as they rode a clinical race to claim the stage win and take the Men’s category leader jerseys ahead of Stage 2.
“Oh my gosh, that was such an intense race. You want a tight race rather than winning too easily, but that was so close,” said America’s Haley Batten
NEWS RELEASE Debutant Pauline Ferrand-Prévot of France and South African partner Robyn de Groot (BMC MTB Racing) served notice to the rest of the CM.com Women’s category at the 2022 Absa Cape Epic with a commanding performance in the Prologue on Sunday, 20 March. Ferrand-Prévot, a multi-discipline World Champion in road racing, cyclocross, and […]
Schurter suffered a rear tire puncture early into the stage and then later on the route decided to replace the wheel entirely at the tech zone. Though he and Forster roared along at a fair clip after the pitstop, they still lost considerable time on the leading teams.
A bull attacked riders during a gravel bike race in Bakersfield, California, on Saturday. Mountain bike stars Christopher Blevins (the sport’s current Short Track World Champion) and Tinker Juarez (a former mountain bike Marathon World Champion and a 1996 Olympian) were competing in the race, but they were unhurt.
The first World Cup downhill event of the year will be coming up in four weeks. Check the schedule and make your plans.
“Isla Short first became part of the Hunt family at the start of 2020. Since that time, the young Scot has picked off 5th place at World Champs in Leogang, two 11th place finishes at World Cups, and two National Titles.”
“The US Open Fat Bike Beach Championship is about having fun and competing on a unique course,” said race director David Ellegood, President of the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) Cape Fear chapter. “The race is held one hundred percent in the sand, and each year the course and beach obstacles change, creating unpredictable levels of difficulty.”
Racing kicks off in the USA in March, with events then rolling throughout the year and taking in locations across six continents before finishing in the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean in November. Further races will also be added throughout the year.
Current Olympic mountain bike champion, Tom Pidcock. Photo by Daniel Sommer/Red Bull Content Pool. England’s Tom Pidcock, 22, who won the Olympic mountain biking gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, has said that he wants to win all three of cycling’s world championship titles in 2022: the cyclocross, mountain biking, and road biking world […]
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Press Release: The KHS team for 2022: (L. to R.) Kailey Skelton, Nik Nestoroff, Steven Walton, and Nate Kitchen. Southridge USA has always been a foundation to the mountain community by bringing some of the best racers in the world to the California dirt. It would be Nik Nestoroff who would take the pro men’s […]
PRESS RELEASE: Building on the success of the 2021 season, which included a silver medal at the Olympics and an XCC world championship title, Specialized Factory Racing has added two exciting riders to the roster. Christopher Blevins. Christopher Blevins, the 2021 XCC World Champion and winner of the final XCO World Cup in Snowshoe, joins […]
Christopher Blevins has shared on Instagram that his time in a Trinity Racing jersey has come to a close. Blevins hasn’t said yet where he’s going. He had been racing Specialized bikes on the Trinity team, but the brand of bikes he’ll be using in 2022 is yet to be announced. Comments on the Christopherblevs […]
The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship has announced that the 2022 Downieville Classic, scheduled to run from August 4-7, 2022, has been postponed until 2023. When the race returns in 2023 it will be the 25th Anniversary of its running. The Downieville Classic comprises the Festival, Cross Country race, and legendary Mountain World Championships including […]
Tinker contacted MBA today to give us an update on his bike choices for 2022. Tinker had revealed earlier today that he’ll be riding for Floyd’s of Leadville in the coming year. He and the rest of that team will be riding Squad gravel and road bikes, but Squad does not have a mountain bike, […]
Check the calendar to see the dates and locations of the events. Watch the video if you want to see a great little video that shows us where on the globe the race sites are located. The 11 stops include the USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania. The series […]
Bootleg Canyon, Nevada, has announced its schedule for 2022. Be sure to go to the Bootleg Canyon website (https://www.bootlegcanyonracing.com/) to register for the events and to check for any changes to the race schedule before making your final travel plans for the races. Notice that they will have both enduro and enduro e-bike races […]
Press Release Wānaka, New Zealand, December 17, 2021 – 27 events. Eight destinations. Three continents. Two hemispheres. It has been a big season for Crankworx competitors, with three World Tour stops, and one heck of a season-ender roadie. December has brought one last blast of competition to riders, who’ve taken their skills to the road across […]
The new electric mountain bike is equipped with the lightweight maxon BIKEDRIVE AIR e-bike system. Including the battery, it weighs only 3.5 kg (7.72 pounds) and can be integrated into the bicycle frame almost invisibly. Knowing how light today’s World Cup XC bikes are, it’s possible that Flückiger’s e-bike might weigh less than 30 pounds
In Absa’s deep history of involvement with sports and sporting events in Africa, the 16-year-long sponsorship of the Absa Cape Epic has been one of the Absa Group’s longest-standing relationships. It has been, without doubt, one of Absa’s most beneficial due to the event’s global attraction and reach, and the dedication to bettering the South African economy through boosting tourism and creating employment in local markets and sectors.