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Rachel AthertonBritain's Rachel Atherton comprehensively slams 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill
Britain’s Rachel Atherton has won a sixth victory at the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill season, making it six wins out of seven races as the series came to an end it Val di Sole, Italy on Saturday.
Atherton, who had wrapped up the title at the preceding round in Windham, USA, continued her tale of dominance, beating Myriam Nicole of France by over two seconds to top the table on a fast, hard Trentino track.
2014 world champion Manon Carpenter took third, six seconds off Atherton’s pace with fellow Briton Tahnee Seagrave fourth, a further five seconds adrift.
"That was pretty much all I had out there," said Atherton. "There were some pretty horrible moments. You kinda don't think about the race anymore. I just didn't want to crash. I felt pretty sketchy. I really wanted it here [to win].
“I knew it was going to be a bit of a struggle, obviously. Manon and PomPom [Myriam Nicole] like these long tracks. I was like, 'I've got the overall, but I don't want it to affect my motivation', it kinda did, but it's a really hard track."
Atherton ended the series on 1660 points, with 2014 world champion Manon Carpenter a distant second on 1079. Tahnee Seagrave ended the series on 986 points, completing a British lockout of the world cup top three.
Laurie Greenland cemented his series win in the junior men’s competition with a third place finish, 1.8 seconds behind race winner Loris Revelli of Italy.
Greenland ended the series on 320 points, with Australian Andrew Crimmins second on 245 points.
Josh Bryceland continued his strong comeback from injury with a fifth placed finish, 4.4 seconds off the pace of race and series winner Aaron Gwin of the USA. Gee Atherton was a tenth of a second behind Bryceland in sixth.
Bryceland ended the series in fifth overall on 836 points, one place ahead of Gee Atherton on 760.
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Title is misleading for people who actively follow World Cup MTB... When I read "Slams UCI MTB World Cup Downhill", I took it as she went on an epic rant against UCI about the state of women's cycling in downhill - which is actually huge problem right now: The attendance of women is dismal and parity of competition nonexistent.
Warra teg, top 3 riders in the world - all brits.
Tip the lid.
Ummm, a single item at the conclusion of the DH World Cup series? Not exactly overwhelming us with MTB news, now, is it? Grow up, children. There's a whole wide world out there & you're gonna have to learn to live in it. Eventually.
The article might introduce some roadies to a form of cycling that involves actual bike handling and tests the nerve. Rachel Atherton has bigger bollocks than any roadie, and she's a femme.
A road site. It's many things but not that.
Clue is in the title, if the subject matter doesn't interest you don't click the link...
Well done Rachel, off to find the vid on youtube....
Normally for an item to appear on road.cc there has to be at least a bit (and quite often extremely tenuous) link to road cycling, but this doesn't seem to have any, except the photo of Rachel that resulted from her road accident (edited: just been changed to a rather better, non-daily mail like pic).
Well done Rachel, but like an awful lot of road.cc articles lately, the story doesn't really have a place on a site that is surely about road cycling (and all the forms that can take). If I want MTB news or a mixture of the two I go to singletrack or bikeradar.
I now only come on here for the tech news!
Really? I thought that this was a website for people who were interested in all aspects of cycling. But there again, I'm not a real/proper cyclist am I as my road bike is probably my least used bike and I regard cycling as mostly a form of transport rather than just a leisure/sport activity.
The above comment is only mildly tongue-in-cheek.
I agree with most of what you said - I too believe this site to be for people who are interested in cycling, and the majority of forms that this takes, but not all. The hint is in the URL ... road.cc. I think this does cross over to gravel and cyclo-cross, as well as leisure riding and commuting, but mountain biking is a whole different genre now, with very few similarities to the rest (bar certain DNA crossover in fundemantal design of certain tech, and the fact it's two wheels powered by a person).
Oh, and I'm a mountain biker, a roadie, a commuter by bike, a family leisure rider and a 'gravel' rider, so I cover all categories, but still feel mountain biking is a long way from all the others.
I started visiting road.cc because it was at the time the best source of info for everything except mountain biking as there are enough other sites doing MTB thing already. The constant reporting of RTAs and stories with very tenuous cycling links is just getting annoying. Traggic though it is, I don't want to see a report on each and every cyclist that has been involved in an accident or weird stories about strange people that just happened to be standing next to a bike when something happened.
Cycling news please (mainly the positive stuff - if I want the negativity in the world I'll start reading the daily mail!!).