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Cross-country: two new champions

Two new champions were crowned in the cross-country discipline: Catharine Pendrel (Luna) and Nino Schurter (Scott-Swisspower). Pendrel capped her World Cup season with her second victory of the year, while Schurter had to settle for second place behind first time World Cup winner Jaroslav Kulhavy (Rubena-Birell-Specialized). Kulhavy's win was the first ever cross-country victory for a Czech rider.

Pendrel began the weekend 54 points ahead of Eva Lechner (Colnago Arreghini Sudtirol) and 59 points in front of Willow Koerber (Subaru-Trek). Neither of her rivals could respond to her aggressive racing style, and the Canadian rode away to cement her victory. Koerber finished second in the overall standings, followed by Lechner.

In the men's competition, 26 points separated Schurter and Absalon before the final race. A flat tire in the second lap ended Absalon's hopes of repeating as the World Cup champion, although he made a remarkable effort to recover to sixth place by the end of the race. Schurter took the overall title with 1136 points, followed by Absalon at 1040 and Kulhavy, also at 1040 points. Absalon got the nod for second, but it took some calculating: they both had one win, but Absalon had two second places results to Kuhavy's one; a very tight finish to the season.

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[knonfil]

@bwvbach There's a site I use where they do webcasts of live races. I watched this one live and the womens' race was amazing, my two fav Canadian girls went at it right to the finish! The site's called freecaster (dot) tv.

The season's about to begin again although when they race I'm sometimes racing myself so I miss some of them but they do post some races in their entirety for later viewing.

[bwvbach]

do they have these on tv? cu id watch em all day