I think the number board will be more aerodynamically detrimental than a little facial hair.

Forks are the same ones that ST towers have on front page?
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No, the ones with blue stanchions, not lowers.

Coloma Nicolas looks like he is on a stag weekend!

Marotte and Koretzsky race for BH Suntour, so some proto for an Axon as a guess. Ah, beat me to it

Its a Whip! Tailwhips are something else that would require some interesting geometry for an xc bike and less less cables attached to the handlebars 🙂

Whats Sagan up to ? Carrying down again ?

The commentator said nino was on a softtail……is that correct?

Surely, with the potential for mechanical problems, these kind of races can be best two of three, points races.

There was enough controversy when they initially introduced the tech and feed zones.. ‘It’s not realy mountain biking unless they carry their own tools and fix their own mechanicals’ but it has led to better racing.
To make it a best 2 from 3 would mean having to shorten the races to something more like a sprint race unless they run them over several days.. these races are damned hard and the riders are wrecked by the end..

Not so surprising seeing as they have three prospective podium finishers in this race.

🙂 quality from the Spaniard

Nino has gapped him, didn’t really see where – on the descent ?

Go Nino!

Nino’s making it look like he rode 5 laps with Kulhavy just for the company.

Ouch

That last crash looked very painful.

My point was there is a big difference between a whip and a tail whip…