UCI Mountain Motorbike Move-Nation Quick Monitor Global Cup girls’s race are living – Pauline Ferrand-Prevot reigns preferrred

16:51 – FERRAND-PREVOT WINS!

And he or she’s achieved it! The sector champion will get a miles wanted win underneath her belt after being shut over the last few weeks. Pieterse 2d, Richards 3rd. Anne Terpstra (Ghost Manufacturing unit Racing) fourth, Rissveds 5th, Rebecca Henderson (Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Racing Group) 6th, Austrian rider Mitterwallner 7th, American citizens Gwendalyn Gibson (Trek Manufacturing unit Racing XC) and Haley Batten (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing) 8th and nitnth. It is unfortunately now not the weekend for Lecomte to protected the triple double, she finishes 10th.

16:50 – WORLD CHAMPION CLEAR

Ferrand-Prévot may well be directly to her first UCI Mountain Motorbike Global Sequence win of the season right here…

16:49 – FERRAND-PREVOT ATTACKS

The rainbow jersey assaults! She’s operating arduous out of the saddle. Slight hole to Pieterse.

16:47 – INTO THE FINAL LAP

Pieterse takes it as they cross into the general lap, Richards in 3rd with a two 2d hole. Lecomte in eleventh, 30 seconds at the back of.

16:46 – RICHARDS DROPS BACK

She hasn’t reasonably controlled to stick with the entrance two and has been quite dropped.

16:45 – PIETERSE TO THE FRONT

It is all trade once more on the entrance! Pieterse main, Ferrand-Prévot 2d, Richards simply at the back of.

16:44 – THIRD LAP DONE

It is Richards who is nonetheless on the entrance with Pieterse and Ferrand-Prévot. Rissveds in fourth, 15 seconds at the back of Richards and he or she leads the chasing workforce.

16:42 – RICHARDS POWERS ON

She’s moved to the entrance now after an excellent uphill segment. The entrance workforce of 3 are transparent and taking a look extremely calm.

16:40 – ANOTHER LAP COMPLETE

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Ineos Grenadiers) has moved into 3rd position! Rissveds fourth, a really perfect restoration from her crash previous. Lecomte all the way down to 6th.

16:38 – PIETERSE TO THE FRONT

She takes over from Richards and tries to transport away at the climb, she’s out of the saddle.

16:37 – NEXT LAP DONE

Richards and Pieterse nonetheless the highest two, Lecomte has moved to 3rd. Berta all the way down to 7th.

16:36 – RISSVEDS DOWN

The winner from closing weekend is down momentarily, however she’s again on her motorbike abruptly.

16:35 – RICHARDS TO THE FRONT

She’s the only to steer up the climb for a 2d time, Pieterse at the back of her.

16:33 – FIRST LAP DONE

It is Berta, Richards, and Pieterse within the most sensible 3.

16:33 – RICHARDS UP TO SECOND

Evie Richards (Trek Manufacturing unit Racing XC) strikes into 2d after overtaking Pieterse.

16:31 – UP THE HILL AND DOWN AGAIN

The younger Dutch rider is overtaken through Martina Berta (Santa Cruz – RockShox Professional Group) because the descent starts.

16:30 – THEY’RE OFF!

Right here we cross! Puck Pieterse (Alpecin–Deceuninck) off to an early lead, Stigger begins strongly as smartly.

ONE TO WATCH – LECOMTE

Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV) she has received each the quick monitor and cross-country Olympic races in Leogang at the previous two events so she unquestionably is aware of the best way to win right here! After her cross-country Olympic win closing weekend she’ll be taking a look to duplicate the end result once more this weekend, and protected a win within the quick monitor nowadays as she has achieved for the previous two years. Can she do the triple double in Leogang? We’re going to to find out in a couple of mins!

ONES TO WATCH – AUSTRIA

Austrian nationwide champion Laura Stigger (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing) received the primary quick monitor race on the UCI Mountain Motorbike Global Sequence this season in Nové Město na Moravě so be sure you be careful for her. Mona Mitterwallner (Cannondale Manufacturing unit Racing) can also be racing on house soil nowadays and might be prepared to protected a just right beginning place for Sunday, she completed within the most sensible ten within the cross-country Olympic race closing weekend in Lenzerheide.

CROSS-COUNTRY SHORT TRACK – EXPLAINER

Nowadays’s race is made up of laps round a loop just below 1km in duration on a condensed model of the Move-country Olympic monitor. The riders will likely be at the route for round 20 mins and with a 40-rider box taking the beginning, it’ll be worrying all of the approach to the road.

The consequences this night time will decide the beginning grid for the longer tournament, the Olympic cross-country race on Sunday, so be expecting a frantic battle to ensue with the ones grid positions protecting massive price.

The closing spherical in spherical in Nové Město resulted in a number dash, however with the extra technical route right here that has a tricky climb within the heart and a rocky descent against the top, along consistent sections with roots to sap the legs, search for anyone to head solo or a small workforce of leaders to emerge.

REMEMBERING GINO MADER

WELCOME

Hi and welcome to Eurosport’s LIVE textual content observation of the 3rd spherical of the UCI Mountain Motorbike Move-country Quick Monitor Global Cup. We’re set for continuous racing motion in Leogang, Austria, with this night’s XCC race kicking off an enormous weekend of MTB racing.

ATHERTON AND WILLIAMS SUCCESS REALLY COOL TO SEE – SCHURTER

Nino Schurter mentioned it was once “in point of fact cool” to peer British riders Rachel Atherton and Jordan Williams declare shocking UCI Mountain Motorbike Global Cup wins.

Schurter created historical past closing weekend together with his thirty fourth UCI MTB Move-country Olympic Global Cup victory, going previous Julien Absalon’s document that he had equalled closing yr.

On the identical tournament, Atherton, 35, received in handiest her 2d race since 2019, having given beginning to her daughter Arna in 2021.

And 18-year-old Williams claimed victory on his debut within the males’s elite pageant.

“It’s in point of fact cool to peer who can win a Global Cup,” mentioned Schurter. “You’ll be able to be a child arising from juniors, or a mum, or a 37-year-old previous man like me.

“Or [Greg] Minnaar, he’s 4 years older than me and he’s doing a recreation this is all about explosivity. To peer him nonetheless on the sharp finish provides me a large number of motivation.

“That’s mountain cycling, you’ll be able to herald a tender child with explosivity, going all in, and the older ones too can play their playing cards in numerous techniques and that’s lovely cool to peer.”