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All of them think they can make it Formula One.
But Formula One is the wealthiest people in the world in the most unobtainable vehicles on the planet.
Hosted in the richest cities on the planet in front of millions.
It really is an asinine comparison.
Cutting out the masses who race is cutting off your nose to spite your face. The masses of privateers & their supporters are the people willing to drive to remote mountain villages and hike up 1500 feet of vertical.
xc footage from day 1 via world series (and sorry, i keep calling it world cup in all the posts i make!)
brazil world series xc course preview with david list
lastest PR from worlds series about brazil xc, where to watch, riders in race (they got the where to watch link right this time)
We look at everything you need to know about the Mairiporã round of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series races, including when the men’s and women’s Cross-country Olympic and Short Track events are scheduled to take place, who is racing and how to watch.
WHEN?
The 2024 WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series kicks off today in Mairiporã, Brazil with the U23 Women’s UCI Cross-country Short Track World Cup round at 14:00 (UTC-3) and concludes with the Men’s Elite UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup at 14:30 (UTC-3) on Sunday, April 14.
Below are the key timings for race weekend. All times are UTC-3 (EST+1/BST-4/CET-5):
Friday, April 12
14:00 – UCI Cross-country Short Track World Cup | Women U23
14:25 – UCI Cross-country Short Track World Cup | Men U23
Saturday, April 13
12:00 – UCI Cross-country Short Track World Cup | Women Elite
12:35 – UCI Cross-country Short Track World Cup | Men Elite
14:30 – UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup | Men U23
Sunday, April 14
10:00 – UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup | Women U23
12:15 – UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup | Women Elite
14:30 – UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup | Men Elite
Full schedule and events details are available HERE.
WHERE CAN I WATCH?
North America
Canada – Flosports
USA – Max
South America
Argentina – Claro
Brazil – TNT Sports YouTube Channel
Chile – Claro
Colombia – Claro
Peru – Claro
Oceania/Asia
Australia – Stan
China – Zhibo.tv
New Zealand – Staylive
Africa
South Africa – Staylive
Europe
Austria – Eurosport, discovery+
Belgium – Eurosport
Czech Republic – Eurosport, Czech TV
Denmark – Eurosport
France – Eurosport, L'Équipe
Germany – Eurosport, discovery+
Hungary – Eurosport
Ireland – discovery+
Italy – Eurosport, discovery+
Netherlands – discovery+
Norway – Eurosport
Poland – Eurosport
Portugal – Eurosport
Romania – Eurosport
Spain – Eurosport
Sweden – Eurosport
Switzerland – Eurosport, SRF
United Kingdom – Eurosport, discovery+
Rest of world – Staylive
RIDERS TO WATCH
Watch for Riley Amos to destroy the U23 races this year, dude is on a mission for Paris!
nw cup #1 course preview
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So do they, this is from their Youtube page:
If I remember right, the World Series is the overarching name for the whole thing, the individual disciplines are still called World Cups.
and I have good word that in some venues they are now charging the teams for water and electricity in EDR, not sure it if was always a charge in other disciplines, but the amount its ridiculous for at least one example venue for 2024
have heard WC is live on amazon prime in USA. screenshot. can anyone else confirm? i don't have prime.
With subscription to Max
I think most often in the past ews was at venues that didn't provide electricity or water. So now it's world cup enduro and the races are at venues that maybe already host DH, and teams are offered water and electricity etc... then makes sense to charge for it. Xc and DH have always been charged I think. Usually the money goes to local organisation
You weren't kidding... solid opening weekend.
I see on Max the Short track replay and Mens U23 replay, thats it. No womens u23 or is there one anymore.
For some reason it’s today. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure it out as well. Not sure why it’s a day later or on the same day as elites.
It's collectively known that ESO wants to cut down the number of riders so they can have a TV/stream package that's more appealing. Fewer riders in the final so they can show all of them and shorter tracks so they can have cameras on the whole course. Semifinals are a way to sugarcoat this. The blatant unfair treatment towards privateers and smaller teams appear to be just cheap tactics to drive them out.
Sometimes collective wisdom isn't very wise 😆
They have managed to cover the longest of tracks top to bottom already. Gotta wait and see if they cut track length at all this year.
I imagine thet definitely want to reduce entries as last season had highest ever entry numbers for DH. But stopping privateers booking pit space probably has more to do with the increase in the number of UCI teams. Cos if you register as a team then you are guaranteed pit space. So maybe most venues are maxed out? Especially those with enduro?
NW Cup results. ALN and Jakob Jewett take the W
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62869768a8310405c3fcbfaf/t/661c5e9ab53b901d1d971a24/1713135262474/DH+Race+Results+Overall.pdf?fbclid=PAAabfLEUIy4DssPSp_rRv9u4EFZ8WliLMhnGYF_4rJR0ADqi6vKdGyW97iwc_aem_AVs8xSOOZjb2KcsPfIbl5nsMkrEtroatVpbD_GI9FuZRuPoQCgIu2g5g44wBTXRf_SY
One of the best days for US XC in a long time?
Wow, only a few Canucks on the podium...
Great to see ALN on the top step!
Bailey Mountain Bike Park property is back up for sale.
A-A-Ron you need a second park???
Looks like the people who bought it did nothing except put in a gazebo up top.
https://www.trulia.com/home/1592-1370-Bone-Camp-Rd-Marshall-NC-28753-20…
Gonna go buy some lottery tickets right now
Sort of on topic:
Has anyone watched the season 2 of Race Tapes on Red Bull TV yet? I've watched two so far, and they're really good.
The Finn Iles one is just brutal, though. The other site's podcast had an interview with the creators where they basically said they're more interested in telling a good story than actually communicating reality. Evidently Finn was in the room at a public screening they had up in the PNW and they all said that was a little uncomfortable. I don't want to go into the specifics and spoil it too much, but I can imagine that would have been a little rough. Still love, Finn, though and wish him all the best this season.
I saw that, and my thought was that UCI is making Mens U23 the flagship event for Saturday??
Secondarily, in a few events, the U23 Women race concurrently in the Elite Women race on Sunday, in a separate start. (Not at Maripora however)
I just watched it; I didn't feel like it was cringy. Nothing wrong with telling the story of a young man figuring shit out.
I mean... when they showed him talking about that hip and how cool it was and how he'll style it out but his scrub isn't as good in that direction... then they showed him getting DQ'd and zero points on that specific hip and overdubbed the French announcers saying something about not trying to be stylish/cute and just take care of business.
That's like some pretty significant editorializing, especially in that they painted a picture of Finn as cocky and bigheaded in the past.
I guess I don't equate scrubbing a jump as cocky. It oftentimes can be the fastest way through a section, and if his feet stayed on the pedals, it would have been perfect. I agree there was a safer way through that corner and that they teed that one up early for the story, though.
I totally agree that it’s not cocky. Thafs my whole point. That’s what bothered me about it. I think they tried to paint it that way. They admitttd in the interview that they worn with archetypes and create stories. I mean: I get it. He pointed out this specific part of track as being cool. Then he screwed it up and his season went down from there. But they made it all about some deeper character flaw he’s battling or something. That’s what I thought was brutal. Admittedly: I had listened to a podcast about this before watching, so maybe I was just focused on it.
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