Laurie will get it this time I reckon. He’s on it.

gavalar – The World Cup overall winner is always held in higher esteem than the World Champ’s in DH. The World Champs is the biggest race, it’s not the most important title.

Think of like the FA Cup final is the biggest game in England but the Premier League winner is the most important title.

@cyclelife, not again, I swear this is why I had to endure BBC commentary in past seasons

It’s 2 different streams for different regions, presuming you’re in the UK then use this one

https://www.redbull.com/int-en/events/uci-mountain-bike-world-championships-en

The 2022 UCI MTB World Championships live stream with english commentary only, on Red Bull TV, is unfortunately subject to a geo-block. The stream is only available in the following regions:
Albania
France
Slovakia
Sweden
UK

For everywhere else, use this stream
https://www.redbull.com/int-en/events/uci-mountain-bike-world-championships-les-gets-all-languages

C’mon Minnaar!!

Do it for us middle-aged folk!

It’s so hard to pick the Men’s, but if I was a betting man I’d go Pierron. Women’s, either Nicole or Hoell.

Incredibly hard to pick the mens, but I too wouldn’t bet against Pierron. Yeah, maybe the sensible thing would be riding conservatively to then focus on the final round of the world cup for the overall, but (as MSA showed) I don’t think he’s programmed to ride conservatively! Plus the prospect of winning world champs on home soil in front of home crowd, that’s got to be worth something extra – although it’ll boost the other Frenchies in the same way.

Women, Pompon for the win although Hoell’s been superb recently as has Balanche.

Do we know if it’s the usual amount of coverage via RB, i.e. just the elite women and men, or will the junior races be broadcast somewhere because it’s world champs? I’ll really like to see those too.

I’ll be gobsmacked if Pierron doesn’t win this, he’s pretty much got the overall in the bag already. He’s been almost unbeatable this season.

All he had to do to win the overall was finish in the top 25 at the last race. I would have bet my house on him wrapping it up and I would have lost.

It’s so wild and unpredictable. Picking the winner is just a guessing game.

For the women I would love Cammie to do it (Obviously I would prefer a UK rider but I am being realistic) I don’t know if it was just me that sensed this, but when she came out of nowhere and won it in 2020 I got the feeling that the media felt it was a bit of a fluke. I didn’t get the sense that anyone thought she would follow up with anything else in her career and they continued to hype the usual lot. So pleased she proved them wrong. Anyone else get that view or just me?

Is Cammie racing? She broke her collarbone in MSA.

I thought the expectation was that she would be ready in time but maybe that was for the overall rather than the champs. Getting mixed info about Tahnee as well, I thought she was done for the season but some suggestion she will be racing

It’s not real qualifying it’s like the equivalent of timed training at the World Cup. You can put down a heater or play it safe. Starting order is already decided so there’s no points chasing.

Bear in mind that because of how riders are selected for World Champs there will be lots of riders who have never raced a WC before and couldn’t possibly qualify for one on a normal race weekend. Some of them won’t make it past today.

The first riders you see on the live feed (which I’ve just noticed is 2 hours long ) could be interesting/scary to watch.

Those links to unrestricted feeds go to the Geo restricted streams!

I’d be happy to see the finals go down like this…

1st. Jordan Williams: 3:31.361
2nd. Jackson Goldstone: 3:35.100

Nice one Jordan.

Greenland was up all last night with a stomach bug according to his Instagram post this morning, so he just crossed the beam in qualifying to make sure he’s in finals on Saturday.

That’s rough. I’ve been up all night with the squits in Les Gets, it can happen to anyone.

Turn the volume up and you can tell it was a real stinger

Was that a bone snapping? Please say no.

Was that a bone snapping?

Quite possibly! But if you watch it on slow motion you can see the moment her wheel tacos. Horrible, horrible crash,

Hope it doesn’t claim more victims during the race.

Gwin and Hoell.

Yes, Gwin.

Wow wow wow it’s incredibly steep!

Thunderstorms and heavy rain at the moment

Its 20 yrs since I biked at Les Gets, and I remember the runs down from where the DH starts were incredibly slippy mud (very much clay)

Lets hope it makes it fun !

I guess most will not bother riding today if raining. Certainly the lifts will be shut until thunderstorms pass