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in my defense i have had a concussion since then 😂🤣 not long after that post actually lol
FWIW: This year's fastest qualifying time at Val di Sole compared with 5 most recent Val di Sole men's finals winning times:
Fastest qualifying time this year: 3:42.221
Prior year winning times:
2024: 3:39.004
2023: 3:34.926
2022: 3:39.774
2019: 3:37.819
2018: 3:36.778
So they broadcast men's and women's q2 on the Whoop UCI YT-channel and it's awesome. Better not do that anymore then...
What a shitshow😡
Brutal one for Bode Burke in practice. Hope he's mostly okay -
Finn had a rough one…
they didnt produce a Q2 show, because the team was busy with live streaming the XC short track show. without a XC race at the same venue we can hope for future Q2 streams
they moved the start gate down a ways too.
Another angle…
They are on E13 flux carbon, at least that's the the stickers say.
Start gate is in the same place as the last 7 or so races in VDS it looks like, can't mistake those crappy berms up top
Accidentally took way too much MM tincture last night, been up since 1:30am cst waiting for finals let's goooooooooooooo!!!!!!
What the hey? UCI took down the Junior Women's stream.
Edit: Allllllllllllllrighty they took down the Junior Men's stream too. Sweet, I've been awake for hours waiting for this.
So it seems that WBD are unsatisfied with the number of fans they managed to piss off yesterday with the Q2 no show. Lets bring the numbers up today by scrapping the junior women's race coverage without a word of explanation.
Edit. Blimey, UCI Whoop put a message in the chat box saying both races will be uploaded to the channel and apologies for the inconvenience. Well that's a first.
Loooooooooool they started streaming the Junior Men's and then just pulled the plug after 2 minutes. Stream removed from the channel.
It seemed to be locked to 360p when it was happening as well.
Not exactly a professional production.
FFS, whats with the Stream??!!
THIS IS NOT WHAT I PAID FOR. Oh hold on its juniors.
Anyway, i scheduled riding in between finals, now no junior finals?! 🤌
Elite broadcast just started, at least it did on Staylive, but I'm gonna have to watch 30 mins minimum of bullshit chat and Josh getting really excited about something not worth getting that excited about instead of watching the juniors.
Was hoping to watch juniors then go straight into elites.
Why would you watch the juniors when you can watch Kate Mason instead? 🤣
You sir are not helping my mood right now.
Juniors is on max. It’s just Rick in the booth. Very weird.
Bummer. I was hoping to practice counting how many times he said "The COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION rider" during the live Junior Men's race.
And thanks again for the 15 seconds run coverage in the womens field....
Final results for the juniors in Val di Sole: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/results-val-di-sole-world-cup-dh-junior-finals
Junior women finals highlights:
Junior men finals highlights:
And the elite women highlights:
Vds always delivers!
Welcome to the future. https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/results-val-di-sole-world-cup-dh-elite-finals
Great point, I think they moved the start gate up to it's current location above all those top berms since 2011. That's 15-20 seconds right there.
what a great race! queue 20 podcasts and youtube videos about chainless runs 🤪
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