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Just heard the little "pre-race" interview with Bruni about racing. He dropped Jackson's name as reason to be on point AND Luca.
We all know he's due a half dozen wins but just good to hear the best saying out loud who they know are the riders to watch out for.
2026 talk but MSA is now the final stop of Crankworx next September. The weekend after Worlds in Val di Sole, 2 weeks or so before Whistler
https://www.crankworx.com/news/crankworx-adds-mont-sainte-anne-to-2026-…
And you never thought of ski/boarding 7 at Bromont?!!
replying to posts today regarding the MSA crankworx announcement Darren Kinnaird confirmed that Whistler is still on the calendar just finalizing dates.
If they are doing a Q1 and Q2 system, which I think works as much as it may be stressful at times, they should drop points in quali. There’s more than enough incentive for a good run and it makes the points focused on the finals which actually matter.
Yep, overall titles being decided by qualifying points is lame. Give the riders uci (non series) points for qualifying so the riders are more valuable for team rankings.
In the LP WynTV post race vid Wyn tried to convince Vali to run shorts in the finals at MSA. So the Vital bounty might be back on.
I assume wearing shorts in a DHI event still attracts a fine under the rules
like for finals? one of the Yeti boys wore shorts didn't he? Jonty orrr? but that was in practice I think
She lost a bet that if she wrapped up the overall before the last round then she would have to race in shorts for the last round.
You can race in shorts as long as your pads go from the top of the knee to the ankle
Blevins laying it down and winning both the race and the overall, the first American to do the overall win since Tomac. That and that xc course like many of the last ones was sick.
What’s the deal for next race in term of overall for the elite men? Jackson has to absolutely finish first to win it ? Thanks
There is 72 points between them. No quali points at msa.
There are many scenarios possible. Loic has a 72-point lead, and there are 250 points on the table for the winner (there are no points given for qualifying in the final round of the World Cup, per UCI rules). The points are awarded as follows, from the winner down through the ranks: 250-210-180-160-140-125-110-95-80-75-and it keeps dropping down to the 30th place. If Jackson wins and Loic is third, Loic still takes the overall by 2 points. If Loic doesn't get ANY points at all, Jackson only needs 10th place or better. Let's say Jackson is third, he then needs Loic to be 8th or worse. Some scenarios...
FWIW: Comparing the 2025 World Cup* seasons of Bruni and Goldstone, through the first 9 races.
[*World Championships not included. Goldstone won that race and Bruni wrecked, finishing 49th. This race is excluded because it didn't affect the WC overall standings. If included, it would have changed the avg. finish to Bruni: 9.3 Goldstone: 7.2.]
I can't wait. This is shades of 2019. And every rider who puts themselves between these riders is going to cause havoc. Especially if they aren't going 1-2, as they have been faltering as of late. The points margins get so much smaller down there. Jackson will need a lot of riders to finish between them. (Or in other words, he needs Loic to crash out if he finishes lower...)
Chances are it will be a full on win or lose. Do or die. For Jackson. Even just going 2nd will make it tougher and tougher to expect other riders to push Loic's points down low enough.
I hear they struggle with the time change 🤣
Rumour has it that Ric and Josh might be pulling out all stops at MSA and saving their best commentary for last. Sounds like there is plan to use the words " Penultimate " and "Goolie" together in one sentence 327 times over the broadcast weekend . Lucky us🤣
I heard Ric was going to announce the whole thing in French Canadian.
UCI has results from WC races on its web site going back to 2017. I took a look at the Elite results for both men and women for all the races held in the US since 2017, and found this:
Number of race winners in US races: France: 4 US: 0
Number of 2nd place finishes in US races: France: 5 US: 1
[Side note: The US has 5 times the population of France.]
MSA is a great track with lots of hukk-a-bucks.
Hahaha #USDH are winning neither of them 😜
Could be an improvement 🤣
Yeah but we’re not French so that’s gotta count for something.
Awww...100% of statistics benefit the person quoting them.
We're talking about this week & this week only.
And plenty of other countries you left out of your post look forward to the opportunity to win outside of the Central Standard time zone. :D
Did you miss that Max Alran had the second fastest time of the weekend?
You mentioned only France and the US, so I limited my comment to those countries in my reply to you.
You didn't restrict your comment to "this week." I merely pointed out that the French seem to do quite well when they race in the US, particularly as compared to the performance of the US racers.
It'll be ok. Nothing terribly serious on here.
Just nice to have a country with 35% of the top 30 men have to get on a plane for once.
Makes it feel more like a "World" cup.
North America, South America, Australia & New Zealand balled out this week.
Weird thing was the less than stellar Canadian showing outside Jackson.
I argue the same thing in my daughter's sport of softball. Oklahoma & Oklahoma State just so happen to dominate the playoff system when unsurprisingly the WCWS is a 30 minute drive from both campuses.
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