Monday 29 September 2014

Postponed Excitement

I expected to be bringing you results and the wow factor from Rampage today but the weather has conspired against the event and pushed the whole schedule back. The finals aren’t confirmed yet but should go off tonight. Until then all I have to show are the qualifiers. And clearly there’snothing good in there. Oh hang on they are also full of properly insane lines already. Finals will be in many ways off the hook.

Luckily there was plenty else going on as well. Mountain bike wise Rachel Atherton chased a load of women downhillers in the female Foxhunt.

On the tarmac the men got going yesterday and as with every race on the road you only really need to watch the last few kilometres.

Annoyingly it was Kwiatkowski who took the win on a long attack and made it complicated for all the bike bloggers that have to once again spell his name. I respect his talent and power but it would be nice if riders with simpler names started winning.

The GB team put in an average showing, but then went on the lash.

Otherwise with it being Dave Millar’s last race, it was very much a changing of the guard with the young guns from both the men’s and women’s teams coming to the fore and giving great hope for the future.

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