It was the right weekend of racing for Victor Koretzky (Specialized Factory Racing), with the French rider on Sunday including victory within the cross-country Olympic (XCO) race on the Lake Placid spherical of the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Series to Saturday’s short-track win.
Koretzky, the short-track world champion, claimed his second victory in as many days in a dash to the road from a gaggle of 5, with recently-crowned XCO world champion Alan Hatherly (Cannondale Factory Racing) coming second regardless of having to struggle again from a rear flat midway by means of the eight lap race within the United States.
Filippo Colombo (Scott-SRAM), who was main by means of the ultimate corners, got here third whereas it was Swiss compatriots Marcel Guerrini (BIXS Performance Race Team) and Mathias Flückiger (Thömus maxon) in fourth and fifth. Home-nation favorite Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) was sixth.
“Doing a double win on one weekend is all the time troublesome as a result of it’s essential to keep motivated and to maintain going,” mentioned Koretzky. “Today the climate was a bit excessive, and it was virtually not possible to know who was the strongest. I rode tremendous affected person all race as a result of it was super-fast.”
Hatherly’s struggle again to second place, regardless of dropping round 30 positions mid-race because of the flat, helped strengthen his place on the head of the general collection forward of the ultimate spherical in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, which runs from October 4-6.
The South African leads the standings with 1378 factors, 259 factors forward of the now second-placed Koretzky and 293 factors forward of Colombo. With 330 factors up for grabs within the ultimate spherical, the pair are the one two with an opportunity of shifting Hatherly away from that prime spot general.
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