- Welcome to this week's race show where I've got
some exciting cross country coming from Spain,
some amazing downhill form Slovenia,
and of course we've got all the action
form Crankworx Innsbruck.
Let's see what's been happening this week.
This weekend was the penultimate round of the
Catalan cup held in the Boi valley.
In the female race Claudia Galicia
and Magda Duran fought for victory,
riding together for much of the race
on this rural track with age streaked features
and deceivingly slippery descents over rocks and roots.
However, in this final lap of the race
Claudia found the energy to break away
and find the all important move
that allowed her to beat Duran.
These two had fought such a fierce race though
that they'd left the rest of the field in their wake.
The podium was completed by Blanca Valles
a full four minutes behind Duran,
five back from Claudia Galicia.
In the elite male category there was another great battle
this time between Bolivian Ever Alejandro Gomez
and Romanian Vlad Dascalu.
Vlad was not to be denied in this race though
and after a great tussle he managed to distance himself
and take the win by a minute from Gomez
who narrowly held onto that
second place from Mario Sinues Mico.
The next race in the Copa Catalana series
will be held in Vallnord in Andora on September the first.
Now to Innsbruck for Crankworx.
The slopestyle,
what an incredible time for slopestyle it is,
Brett Rheeder put on an amazing performance
including the first ever flat drop blackflip opo thailwhip
done in a competition.
But the weird thing about this is
Rheeder's run wasn't even good enough to take the win,
how mental is that?
After a crash in his first run it was down to
Nicolai Rogatkin to take the top stop from Rheeder.
Rogatkin said he was bit nervous before dropping in
but it didn't show.
Huge tricks with big amplitude and some insane aerobatics
that we've got used to seeing from Rogatkin
including his signature and a one handed
Superman seat grab gave him a 93
and he stole the win from Rheeder.
Diego Caverzasi put in a huge run
with a few front flips and plenty of combos
that bagged him a familiar third spot.
Les Gets is a favorite of Caverszasi's though
and he's ready and said he's going to push down
all of the tricks he's got in that event
coming up next week.
Downhill time, right,
it was repeat wins for Hart and Hannah
at the Crankworx downhill held on the rough off camber
of Innsbruck bike park.
The track had small sections of everything.
Variable conditions meant the track ran differently
to the riders' practice runs
so it was a case of adapt or die to reach the top spot
and adapt they did.
Tracy Hannah stormed to victory
ahead of reigning Queen of Crankworx Jill Kinter
by a whopping 5.5 second margin.
Hannah was elated to take a victory at Crankworx
redemption from when she was forced to retire from Rotorua
with a suspected concussion so that's great for her.
It's a similar story with Danny Hart really
the season hasn't exactly started how he intended
with his usual form in the World Cup series
seeming to escape him.
However, the tight technical woods sections
and varied terrain had Danny Hart written all over it
making him feel super comfortable on the track.
A victory by 1.5 seconds will be a great
confidence boost for him coming into the brief break
before Val di Sole in July.
Blenkinsop and Kintner bagged second places
securing good points for the overall
King and Queen of Crankworx pursuits.
Although he's not actively pursuing it,
Blenkinsop admits the King of Crankworx title
is at the back of his mind.
Bad news for Dakota Norton in the men's race though
a nasty crash resulting in a shoulder injury
that throws questions as to his involvement
in the next round of the World Cup.
Healing vibes to Dakota, 'cause he's having a great season,
it'll be great to see him back fighting
with those seasoned vets in the World Cup.
One of our ones to watch is Vale Holl
finishing in the juniors with a time
that would have seen her place ahead of Kintner
and still second in the seniors.
She never stops impressing.
Now to the pump track, smaller events like the pump track
are where the regulars make the points to win
over all titles in King and Queen of Crankworx.
It didn't quite go to plan
for last year's King, Adrian Loron,
being beaten to the top step of the podium by Chaney Guennet
due to a big crash.
Loron finished second but ends a three event
podium drought so weight off the mind.
Kintner clinched first ahead of Kialani Hines
in some very tight battles.
Both were on form and looking strong
but Kintner just had that little bit extra pace
to seal the win and those all important points
for Queen of Crankworx.
Now, speed and style, the speed and style
is always a great one to watch,
head to head racing with big tricks thrown in,
what's not to like?
Slope and style veteran Greg Watts,
can you have a slope and style veteran?
Knocked out Tom van Steenbergen to take third place
while Tomas Lemoine beat Sam Reynolds to the top spot
with application of some raw speed.
Great to see Sam Reynolds in there battling though.
The IXS European downhill cup made it's way to
Kranjska Gora in Slovenia for round two
of this European series.
Not to be confused with the IXS downhill cup
that crowns both a Swiss and a German champion for the year.
This Euro series is the premium offering from IXS
and that was evident by the amount of elite racers
who attended the first round in Maribor.
That race was a great show of form
as it landed just one week before the World Cup season
got underway in Losinj.
So this second round was always going to be hotly contended
and a hottened track awaited the riders.
Not the longest track in the world
but full of technical challenges
and strewn with tricky routes.
So in the end the elite women's was one by
Blackthorn's Monika Hrastnik by just 1.5 seconds
form Nina Charlotte Hoffman with Jana Bartova
a full four seconds back to round out the top three.
In the men's elite it was an incredible close race
with the top seven riders
all finishing within a single second, unbelievable racing.
To be fair, I feel like they all won
but that's not how it works and the nod had to go to someone
and this time it was the day of
Germany's Joshua Barth of Carbocage Factory Racing.
Luka Berjinc nabbed second place by just 0.075 of a second
behind Joshua and less than point two of a second
ahead of Max Hartenstern.
The following bunch of four riders in the results
all left to rethink where they could have found
that all important pedal stroke
that could have made the difference
in that second they lost.
Lastly I want to thank Greg from North Hants in the UK
for sending this action shot in.
Greg, who's looking very smart in that GMBN race top,
was at his first race ever,
he came in 41st of 58 in the 30 to 39 age group
at the Funduro in the Malverns Classic.
He said, "I had a blast,
"and it won't be my last race either."
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