XCO Windham@2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup

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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• Pendrel

[aslimization]

hmmmmm...ithink thsi is wonderful palce...for road

[apolotorres]

@skaterrebel Because of the attack of the other guys, he had to keep up, no time for drinking...

[skaterrebel]

At 1:41 does the guy in red take the water bottle, then toss the same one?

[TonyNebula]

Yeah XCO!