Laura Stigger (Specialised Manufacturing facility Racing) sprinted to the road forward of her teammate Sina Frei, claiming victory within the ladies’s elite cross-country Olympic race on the penultimate UCI Mountain Bike World Cup collection spherical of 2024.
It was one other tight contest between third and fourth within the dry and heat situations of america spherical, held at Lake Placid on Sunday. Candice Lill got here out on high towards Loana Lecomte (Canyon CLLCTV XCO), who had been out entrance when the bell rang to sign the ultimate lap of the seven lap race. Rebecca Henderson (Primaflor Mondraker Racing) then crossed the road in fifth, having fought her approach again towards the entrance of the race after a troublesome begin.
“It’s wonderful. With a double win and Sina [Frei] smashing it yesterday,” stated Stigger, who celebrated heartily together with her Specialised teammate Frei, who received the short-track on Saturday earlier than coming second within the cross-country Olympic on Sunday. “I attempted to offer all of it from the feed zone till the top, I noticed ways from Sina from yesterday and thought I wanted to strive the identical.”
The teammates had been amongst a bunch of 4 with Lill and Lecomte till the very remaining phases of the race, however then Stigger launched previous Lecomte. The French rider could not react however Frei did, leaping round Lecomte when she clearly had nothing left and onto her teammates wheel, the place she stayed till the road.
Sequence chief Alessandra Keller (Thömus Maxon), who has already secured the brief monitor total, completed in ninth place leaving her with a lead of 330 factors to Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing). Which means Blunk might nonetheless technically overtake Keller within the remaining spherical, given 330 factors are up for grabs however issues must go significantly incorrect for Keller and significantly proper for Blunk for there to be a change within the high spot total.
The ultimate spherical at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada will play out from October 4-6.
