With Carod and Ferrand-Prevot taking the XCC short track win, the XCO finals at this technical track will decide who takes the overall Kate Courtney p ...
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The race for the overall in ON between Anne Terpstra, Rebecca McConnell and Alessandra Keller!
The women's race has begun!
Lecomte leading at the moment, with Blink and Neff right behind her. They're done with the start lap and are currently on the first proper lap!
Ferrand-Prevot knows all too well not to let Lecomte ride away at the front and keeps up with Lecomte's attack to stay close by.
Already a huge gap between the two leading French women and the chasing group.
A few mistakes by Lecomte and Ferrand-Prevot goes into a lead, pulling a few bike lengths away from Lecomte.
A mistake by Pauline and Loana is back in the lead. Batten is 41 seconds back in third place. Neff is a minute back in 4th place. Keller is in 7th- still a comfortable position to take the overall.
Neff has overtaken Batten and is currently in third.
Ferrand-Prevot has attacked on the big climb and dropped Lecomte by 28 seconds.
Courtney dropped further back after some mechanical issues. Currently sitting in 14th, ahead of Malene Degn.
Terpstra is out of the race!!!!! Tough day in the office for her!
Ferrand Prevot made it look easy and SHE HAS TAKEN THE WIN!!!!
With a few mistakes throughout the race, Lecomte finished second, 1 minute and 27 seconds behind Pauline.
Neff finishes third, proving that she does get stronger and faster throughout the race!
Alessandra Keller takes the World Cup Overall!
Men's XCO finals, the last race of 2022 is underway!!!!!
Carod is leading at the moment. Schurter is sitting in 9th. He only needs a top 6 finish to take the overall!
Schurter is leading the chasing group, trying to close the gap to Carod.
Sarrou, Hatherly and Braidot are also in the chasing group with Schurter. Gap to Carod sits at 19 seconds at the moment.
Carod is comfortably pushing further away from the group. Chasing group is 30 seconds behind him now.
Carod's into the penultimate lap now with the chasing group 45 seconds back!
Schurter's sitting in second, opening up a little bit of a gap to Sarrou.
Braidot's bike might have a mechanical. He has fallen back a bit and is 15 seconds behind the chasing group.
Sarrou has been dropped. Schurter is in the second position. If he finishes the way he's going now, he will take the overall win!
Carod wraps the final World Cup of this year with a perfect weekend!
Schurter finishes second, taking his 8th ever overall title!
Sarrou, Korentzky and Braidot finish 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively!
Emotional wrap up from Rob Warner, Bart and the team at the end.
Warner said that there were some exciting projects in the pipeline but World Cups won't be the same without the voice of mountain biking.
Agree about Rob getting emotional, hiding behind the sunglasses.
Looked like a hard course to race on and Pauline Ferrand Prevot definitely finished the season in good form.