Source : Biketo.com| Beauty Riding Network Author : Han Jing
The 2022 Mountain World Cup is nearing completion, with the penultimate race coming to Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada. We are delighted to see the Mountain World Cup on the track of Mont-Sainte-Anne for the first time in three years. The track of Mont-Sainte-Anne is quite difficult, and many drivers have been injured in the past, and the track here is also a test for equipment.
▲ For equipment, this is also hell
This season's Mont-Sainte-Anne's downhill track has changed from the past, first of all, the track has become longer, and the Mont-Sainte-Anne circuit in the 2022 season has added a new technical section to the original, and the track has been extended to 2.9 km, with a drop of about 600m. Secondly, some technical sections of the track have also been modified, but the track still maintains the original "original" style, and the track is still full of obstacles such as rocks and tree roots.
▲ This season's Loic Bruni has not been able to compete in his heyday due to injury, but as the schedule progresses, the state has been recovering, and the fall of this station is undoubtedly a big impact on it
As mentioned above, many drivers have suffered serious falls on the Mont-Sainte-Anne track, and drivers who have returned to the Mont-Sainte-Anne track after three years still have to face this situation. During training, the fall kept happening, and the winning Camille Balanche, Loic Bruni and Loris Vergier were all injured to varying degrees in the crash on the training day and withdrew from the championship competition.
Camille Balanche broke his collarbone on the first day of training day and had no choice but to retire.
Loic Bruni had a puncture during training, and Loic Bruni was bounced up and fell off the car to dislocate his shoulder. After treatment, Loic Bruni still tried to run through the track several times, but eventually gave up for various reasons.
Loris Vergier also opted out of the race due to a crash and shoulder injury.
Women's Elite
The development trend of the women's elite group of this station is unexpected, but it is reasonable. Vali Holl won the final victory of the site.
Vali Holl finished first in qualifying with a thirteen-second lead over second place and finished last in the final. But in the past, this seemed to be a kind of pressure for Vali Holl, and it would make her lose the championship. Vali Holl has been at the top of qualifying many times in the past elite competitions, which should have been a sure win, but many times he missed the championship due to low-level mistakes, "too much force" and other reasons. In the final of this station, we saw Thatali Holl complete the final very relaxed and comfortable, and pocketed the championship.
Another winner of the site, Myriam Nicole, had bad luck at the site, and successive mechanical failures made her fail to achieve the desired results in qualifying and finals. The final finished in 13th place.
Myriam Nicole looked a little helpless
In the final, Nina Hoffmann ran faster than Vali Holl in qualifying. In the past, it is very likely that Vali Holl will not be able to withstand the pressure, or too eager for the championship and make mistakes, but Vali Holl did not let this happen in this game, and Nina Hoffmann can only be second.
Nina Hoffmann adapted to mont-sainte-Anne's extra-long track and finished runners-up in the women's elite.
The top five in the women's elite category were Vali Holl, Nina Hoffmann, Eleonora Farina, Jess Blewitt, and Monika Hrastnik.
▲Women's Elite Report Card
In terms of overall results, due to Camille Balanche's collarbone injury on training days and his withdrawal from the competition, the drivers in the top few of the current standings have the possibility of competing for the title. Camille Balanche is still at number one overall, but as the tournament ended, second-placed Vali Holl trailed by just 119 points and third-place Myriam Nicole 180 points behind. Coupled with the injury to Camille Balanche's collarbone, everything is in a state of to be determined, and the overall winner of the women's elite group seems to be revealed only four weeks later at val di Sole in Italy.
Men's Elite
Finn Iles won the race with a time of 4:11.717 ahead of second-place Laurie Greenland by 0.238 seconds. Finn Iles finally won the World Cup single-stop title, which is also nine years after the Canadian driver won the championship on home soil.
In fact, Finn Iles could win the title with a bigger advantage because during the race, Finn Iles dropped the chain, so much so that the second half of the track Finn Iles was completed without chains.
In addition to this, it is worth mentioning that Finn Iles has been "fighting" in the men's elite group for a long time. Finn Iles, 22, has been in the men's elite as early as the 2018 season, but Finn Iles' first win didn't come quickly. But it's great that this season we've seen Finn Iles become more mature and solid. Before winning the tournament, Finn Iles had already finished two seconds and one third in the half season. I believe that in the future, Finn Iles will have a more eye-catching performance.
Veteran Aaron Gwin finished fourth on this site.
The top five in the men's elite category are: Finn Iles, Laurie Greenland, Troy Brosnan, Aaron Gwin and Bernard Kerr.
▲ Men's Elite Report Card
In addition to the outstanding Canadian driver Finn Iles, french driver Amory Pierron also deserves our attention. Amaury Pierron only needs to be in the top 25 of this tournament to firmly lock in the overall position of the points champion.
But for Amarry Pierron, stability is not his style, Amaury Pierron has always been on the track to "swim" on the edge of the limit (many times the single-stop championship is "wandering" failure and surrendered to others). In this station, Amaury Pierron failed to "swim" again, and he fell in a corner at Amarury Pierron, which caused him to lose a lot of time.
▲ Life is not easy, "Pi Long" sighed
Amaury Pierron happened to be in 25th place when crossing the finish line, but ended up in 26th place as the schedule progressed. While Amarby Pierron still has a 249-point lead, who knows what will happen in the future.
Youth group
Jackson Goldstone once again won the men's youth division and led second-place Jordan Williams by 74 points in terms of overall results, locking in the overall title of points ahead of schedule.
During the season, Jackson Goldstone has won five of the seven races so far, with the remaining two also coming in second. Jackson Goldstone's performance in the men's elite group can also rank third, I believe that in the elite group of the 2023 season, we will see Jackson Goldstone shine.
The top three in the men's youth category were Jackson Goldstone, Jordan Williams and Bodhi Kuhn.
▲Men's Youth Report Card
The top three in the women's youth category were Phoebe Gale, Izabela Yankova and Gracey Hemstreet.
▲Girls' Youth Report Card
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