ANNOUNCER: Oh, what a race this is.
JEROME ALIX: America, always a great place to go to.
ANNOUNCER: Blevins up inside.
Oh my goodness.
Incredible scene.
JEROME ALIX: There's always a lot
of noise, great vibe around it.
ANNOUNCER: Oh, massive crash!
JEROME ALIX: So today is Friday.
It's a short track day.
We're going to raise that 5:30 tonight for the girls.
So this morning, they just go for easy spin.
We're going to look at the weather.
We're going to check every bolt, if it's
all good, tires pressure, fork.
And make sure that that bike is as fast as
possible for the tonight race.
SINA FREI: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this race,
and I hope there will be a lot of people cheering
and I can show my very best.
And yeah.
LAURA STIGGER: I think it's going to be fast and tactical.
JEROME ALIX: It should be a really good race.
BENNO WILLEIT: It has been a great season so far,
and this is the final.
And that is where we can show that we are the very best.
HALEY BATTEN: Yeah, I'm really excited.
I'm kind of approaching it like the first race of the season,
you know?
You don't really know where everybody's fitness is.
It's kind of unpredictable.
And I'm just excited to have fun and enjoy racing in the US.
RACER: Last World Cup round of the World Cup, and yeah, really
focused and excited to race.
I will leave everything today, and yeah, no regrets for sure.
ANNOUNCER: A long hold, then we go green.
And we're underway here for the last short track race of 2021.
Laura Stigger the next of the back of that leading group.
Sina Frei, the world champion, with the rainbow stripes.
And we go green, and we're off, then.
Sarrou with a number five flight.
Always a very tactical race.
This one doesn't look any different.
CHRISTOPHER BLEVINS: It's always nice
when you race in an English-speaking crowd when
you can actually hear with their cheering
but especially when it's in the USA.
So honestly, just felt so special, and like,
I'm just extremely proud to be out there
in rainbow stripes and race.
JEROME ALIX: Today is Saturday.
That's the last training before racing tomorrow.
So the girls are on course now just for one lap.
And after that, easy spin on the road.
Then we're going to wrap the bikes,
change seat in to put race seat inside the tires, all
those small details, and get ready for tomorrow race day.
HALEY BATTEN: Yeah, it's pretty cool to kind of join forces.
I mean, we're all on the same equipment
and I think we've been in the same circle
together out all the races.
So it's kind of cool to be under the same tent and kind of share
ideas and be on the same excitement
wave for the last World Cup of the season.
SINA FREI: Yeah, it's cool to have finally again a signing
session with so many people.
It's fun.
JEROME ALIX: So the last half an hour before the race,
the girls, they go on course just
to check if something changed like with rain or whatever.
And then as soon they come back, we wipe the bikes a little bit,
d a little check the pressure if it's good with the riders,
how they feel.
They go on warm up.
We go to feed zone and start, and it's time to race.
ANNOUNCER: OK, let's go racing in the USA.
Oh, massive crash!
Oh, what a rice this is.
I don't know who's going to take this one back.
SINA FREI: Yeah, I felt pretty good.
But in the end, it was a little bit here the last power,
I could not find it.
And yeah, fourth place--
it's of course a little bit unlucky.
LAURA STIGGER: I had a very good position in the beginning.
And then a Canadian just got stuck with the fence,
and I just crashed over her.
And then I try to catch up and, like,
was already 10 or people or something.
But then at the rock garden, I thought, should I go B line
or-- and then just did A line.
And it was so painful.
And then, yeah, I decided to quit.
Yeah, definitely not the way I wanted to end.
And definitely I felt super good.
And yeah, I was looking for super good results today.
But yeah, c'est la vie.
ANNOUNCER: And we are in Snowshoe ,
the World Cup finals.
Here we go.
ANNOUNCER: Second place for Christopher Blevins.
Jordan Sarrou is there as well.
Specialized team seeing good start.
ANNOUNCER: Jordan Sarrou, your 2020 world champion,
a little bit further back as well, eighth place
through that last bit.
ANNOUNCER: It looked like Sarrou had a technical bottom
or like a flat tire.
ANNOUNCER: He's riding a very clever race.
He hasn't been to the front--
ANNOUNCER: No.
ANNOUNCER: --once.
ANNOUNCER: Blevins up inside.
Oh my goodness!
Christopher Blevins becomes the first American rider
to win a World Cup race in nearly 30 years
here in Snowshoe!
Incredible scenes!
ANNOUNCER: Christopher Blevins!
Jordan Sarrou!
JORDAN SARROU: A tough race.
It was close, but yeah, but I managed to finish 12 and, yeah,
fifth in the overall.
So finally, this one is deserved,
and yeah, I'm happy about the season.
BENNO WILLEIT: The season has been very intense.
We came together as a new team in the beginning
of the season on the cross-country side,
but we managed to become a team very quickly.
We look out for each other, and it was a growing process
throughout this whole year.
And seeing what we became now and showing what we can do here
in Snowshoe is very special.
[MUSIC - ELDAR KEDEM, "SOMETHING NEW"]
ELDAR KEDEM: (SINGING) It's been a long time since we danced
all night through the lights.
It's been a long time.
Want to take you out.
We can make it right.
Don't want to be alone anywhere.
Need a new love, and I think that it's fair.
I'm still looking for someone I can share all the things
that really go inside me.
Girl, you know I'm going after you.