'Felt like a video game' - Evie Richards surpasses Pauline Ferrand-Prévot for career MTB World Cup XCC wins
Briton goes two-for-two in𓂃 Brazil to start 2025 s﷽eason

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Evie Richards (Trek Factory Racing-Pirelli) not only scored back-to-back short track victories in Brazil at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup but in the process she surpassed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pauline Ferrand-Prévot as the most successful elite woman in XCC.
Richards, the reigning XCC World Champion, opened the 2025 season with a win on the first of two consecutive weekends on the red clay in Arax&aღacute;, Minas-Gerais. She followed that Friday with a final lap attack to earn her sevꦯenth career XCC World Cup victory..
"When you’re World Champion and yo🍸u’re leading the series, there’s a lot of pressure, so I was really nervous before. That's pretty cool," Richards said at the finish when she was told she had the record.
A continent and an ocean away, Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) was unaware of her mountain bike record falling, as she competed - and won - at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix Femmes. The French rider had claimed the Olympic gold medal In Paris in cross-country mountain bike, having already captured world titles in XCC, XCO and marathon mountain bike ဣas well as road, gravel and cyclocross disciplines.
Ferrand-Prévot retired from mountain bike competitions last year to focus on a ret꧅urn to the road, where this season she has finished third at ܫStrade Bianche Donne and second at the Tour of Flanders.
Richards wasn't thinking about breaking records on Friday, and said even a solid game plan was no❀t an objective for the volatile s🔜tyle of short track.
"It felt like a video game. It was just like figurines, when someone made an attack it didn't really process who it was. And Jenn's꧂ [Jackson] riding so strong, I did think she'd hold it to the end."
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On the third lap Richards surged to the front of the pack on the climb and then over the r𝄹ock garden with only Jenny Rissveds (Canyon CLLCTV XCO) and Jennifer Jackson (Orbea Fox Factory Team) in tow. There was a regroup for the next two laps and Jackson launched an attack on lap six.
On the final lap, Jackson's move was then nullified when Nicole Koller (Ghost Factory Racing) made a move, but Richards then made her final pass at t🥂he rock garden and left the Swiss rider to second place, Rissveds go🌼ing third.
🐽“Again, you c🦹an only do what you can do. We had a bit of a rough plan, but nothing changes too much, at short track, you never know who's going to come.
You’ve just got to be on y𝔍our feet and defend on how the race goes, you can’t really have a plan.”

Jackie꧋ has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for ♏Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).
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