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A rocket from the north east to a north western base
A long walk for a sword
A Scandinavian adventure to the sun and dust ‘93 till infinity, the red hot chilli peppers and some garage welding.
The dream is locked and loaded
what about enduro? Anybody got intel on anything good?
The king of Austria hopping on to a bike from over the boarder
It (subjectivity) is the downfall of almost every sport at some stage.
It has ruined Rampage. Ruined slopestyle. Ruined what feels like the majority of the Olympics. As soon as you introduce subjective measures, EVERY decision will be wrong.
I think the thing that makes people suspicious of WBD and UCI is that WBD and UCI keep doing suspicious things (including well-documented meetings with certain team managers but not all team managers and forcing them into NDAs as tight as not revealing anything even to athletes on their own teams in order to be in those meetings).
"Don't start no shit. Won't be no shit." - Lil' John
Last I checked riders will own their points. Not teams. But will need to check that rulebook again.
Don't think the wild card spots are that nebulous at all. (The crux of this whole debate)..the 5 spots are to be chosen on current and previous world ranking, profile (fame) of the riders, current or previous injury (commençal Muc-off in 2023 woukd have needed this) and anti-doping history. So while very open to 'abuse'. The system is also quite transparent and arguably pragmatic
Rhetorical technique of focusing on only one poor aspect of someone's argument. Is......weak 😂. (But I agree the Olympics and Olympic federations can suck one)
Wow. You'd swear they were deleting the clock from DH racing. The wildcard stuff will select around 10% of the riders who'll race world cups. Drama for nothing
All I heard about enduro is that most of the medalist from EDR worlds won't be racing in 2025. Gonna be interesting to see how performances go if loads of former factory riders end up as 'provateers'.
Also Danny Hart on Norco is gonna be weird. Can't see him being too open to mentorship From Minnaar. But I suppose they need the points.
Hart definitely not going to Norco. Maybe YT. They have the money.
That spot is going to the current world champion.
Scotsman laying down his weapon and doing what his master tells him.
Yeah Mr like guy said up earlier, why have criteria #2-4 if #1 is points? They’re giving themselves permission to monkey with the teams.
When the selection process involves something other than straight up objective points, people are more likely to do favors.
That part about WBD talking with some team managers but not others?—with non disclosure agreements? Shutting down that muddy juniors race with riders in the gate?
They are way too unconcerned with the bike race part of the bike race they bought.
Norco's CEO, who brought the team back from the dead and got Minaar on board, got handed his ticket out of the organization yesterday. So who knows what is going to happen to that team now.
Hart to Norco seems somewhat likely given the TRP stuff and fresh gold fork
Why have criteria #2-4 (there's 6 btw)? We've covered this. So smaller teams that don't have all the points but may have signed an interesting/fast/legacy rider or two etc.. have a shot. Or for example criteria 3 - "UCI Team composition (multi-category, multi-gender) ". So a team with slightly less points but that has signed women and juniors has a shot against the quite common male dominated teams. Or when making the selection between two similar teams when one has a rider who has been done for a doping violation in the past (criteria 6)?
So ya, seems there's loads of reasons to have diverse selection criteria for 5 of the 20 teams.
As for your junior comments. They cancelled a race in loudenville because of safety concerns around evacuations. Might have been the wrong call. We'll never know. Funny you don't mention the fact that WBD broadcast all junior racing live and free on YouTube though? Something the UCI nor red bull TV ever cared about. Seems in that sense WBD are more concerned with the fans getting to see the racing?
cast bar is a giveaway too seeing as they seem to be the only team using them
Pretending like Elite racing wasn't free before and WBD isn't just using the juniors as a funnel into their paid coverage isn't the best argument I've heard... though it is cool that we finally get to see coverage of the juniors, so in that sense, it has been a positive change.
On the rumor front: Last year there was quite a lot of hype around first-year juniors with Asa, the Alran brothers, and Tyler Waite - anybody of note coming into next season?
From what I've seen, from a euro perspective the girls are going to have some tight competition amongst the first years. Both the Rosas (Zierl and Jensen) and Lina Frener. Add to that Aletha Ostgaard and there's four big contenders for a podium. I'll add Cassandra Peizerat in the mix, but well have to see if she stays racing DH (she's also a growing talent in the alpine skiing world)
For the guys, Is Cohen Bundy a 2008 or '09? It's really sad to see Cash Shaleen out of action, he would have made quite an impact and we have to wait another year before a skinny, ginger-haired Spanish kid named Marcel makes his debut. That'll be something.
ALL WBD/WC DISCUSSIONS please post to the 2025 RACE TALK thread here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2025-race-talk?page=9
this is team rumors.
Junior womens class is gonna be stacked in '25. And with the fast juniors moving up to elite, women's racing is going from strength to strength.
Rumor wise seems most of those those junior women racers you mentioned will be on factory teams or close to it?
Zierl - Cube
Jensen - Gen S
Frener - Norco
Ostgaard - Canyon Factory
Any others?
Will Tegan Heap still be with Pivot this year?
Reading the description of her latest video I doubt she will be on PFR next year:
[...] Although things may be looking a little different for me next year [...]
Her parents probably don't want her to be BK's next girlfriend
What about Monika Hrastnik? As an ex AM Doroval athlete ... 8. overall. Any ideas?
Tahnee just posted up new bike day...https://www.instagram.com/p/DDCwxL3t3UT/?img_index=5&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
No news yet, she was still riding her old commencal this weekend...
not exactly "new" as this was the setup intended for the cancelled Nines earlier this year. She might just be riding her spare frames until the reveal of a new sponsor (if so)
Insert dude spitting cereal meme... Ouch
Spoilers in last Lalyche TV vidéo..
Goodman Santa Cruz with a stacked team and two new riders.. 🙈🙊
https://youtu.be/XcILY8BTD_o?feature=shared
Estaque and Bouladou. Definitely two of the better names in the scene.
Estaque.
Bouladou.
I think he spoiled Vergier on Commencal Muc-Off too !
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