Source: Giulia De Maio
Watch the second leg of the World Cup on Red Bull TV. Excellent performance from Mirko Tabacchi, 13th!
After the opening stage in Nové Město, the 2017 Cross Country World Cup stopped in Albstadt yesterday.
In Germany and live on Red Bull TV we witnessed yet another success of Nino Schurter and at the world premiere of Yana Belomoina.
Heat and climbs were the two ingredients that made the second round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup XCO tough and that you can fully review on www.redbull.tv.
Adrenaline-pumping race for women, full of twists. For the first time in her career, the Ukrainian champion with the Red Bull helmet managed to win a World Cup race among the elites. Double party for the 24 year old from Lutsknel, who also wore the leader's jersey of the general, parade to the Danish Annika Langvad, first in the Czech Republic and yesterday crash. Behind the winner of the day, standard bearer of the Brentjens Mountainbike Racing Team, finished the two top riders of the Kross Racing Team, the Polish Maja Wloszczowska and the European champion Jolanda Neff.
In the men's field, the Swiss ace seems to have established a dictatorship. A week ago, on a super technical track, he had raced with the Scott Spark, his full bike, yesterday instead on the German route with many long climbs and decidedly less demanding descents, he changed bikes by racing with his hardtail, the Scale. Different bike, but the final result remained the same, first. He surprised 22-year-old Dutch cyclocrossist Mathieu Van der Poel, second. Good performance of the 23 year old New Zealander Anton Cooper, third. To report the bad fall of Mathias Flückinger and the 7th place finish of Julien Absalon. As for the Italians Luca Braidot and Marco Aurelio Fontana were fighting for the top five in the first part of the race, until the Prorider was forced to retire due to mechanical problems and the young colleague had to give in to the pace of the best due to respiratory difficulties . In the end, the best blue was Mirko Tabacchi, 13th and the creator of a good comeback.
The World Cup continues on Red Bull TV with the Fort William DH in Scotland on June 4, the appointment with the cross country is on July 2 with the stage of Vallnord, Andorra.
