RACE HIGHLIGHTS | Elite Men XCC World Cup | Crans Montana, Switzerland 

Second Gold For sure

UCI don't give a sh!t to us from LATAM 😥😥😥

What did the critics say?

that's the XCO course. This is XCC

Tomorrow XCO

His cycling career started as cyclocross racer.

There’s not a single “roadie” on the course

@@jacobmathis5686 There were enough crash videos of the practice posted online. Lots of comments like "this happens when roadies try mountainbiking".

​@@tomw0815 I always laugh when I hear that nonsense. Most professional roadies have way better bike handling skills than the average mountain bike enthusiast. 😂

@@MD-uu5nt I disagree. There’s a reason Peter Sagan was so damn good; he was a mountain biker first. When I raced XC in Alaska, there was somewhat of a rivalry between the Fairbanks and Anchorage racers and the Fairbanks guys were stronger cyclists with a lot of skill and a really high cadence riding style because they spent a lot of the early season on road bikes (trails open up later up there). Whereas the guys from Anchorage had a lot more varied experience with other sports; in particular the best bike handlers on technical stuff were myself and another guy and we were both street skaters and ski racers before getting into mountain biking. Every year the state championship switched between Fairbanks and Anchorage and when it was in Fairbanks, they would always make really technical difficult course that they thought gave them the advantage; but we continually spanked them specifically because we had a lot of experience with other sports that required superior balance. In my own case it helped that I road off road on traditional road cleats and shoes with double straps before clipless MTB shoes were developed, and it forced me to become a really good bike handler because I couldn’t get out of my pedals without reaching down to swipe the straps (and walking off road in hard plastic road shoes with a big plastic cleat sucked). The Fairbanks guys would have been better off making courses on open fire roads if they wanted to beat us. Somehow they never cottoned on to that obvious fact. 😂 But the reality is that good road riders today spend enough time off road in cyclocross and MTB that they develop all the skills they need along with being really good bike handlers in general. It might have been true 30 years ago that roadies would have been at a decided disadvantage, but there’s so much crossover between disciplines that those differences in bike handling style have gone away.

Even if he doesn't unclip a pedal, he tends to start badly in MTB as he is so small he doesn't have the early power acceleration or the sheer size and weight to barge his way through the first few bends

You can't even understand Warner.

That's nonsense. No one should be forced to race every world cup . Not having enough time on the bike actually results in higher risk of injury

Pidcock is a tiny man with a huge ego. he is NOT an MTBer. at all. he pops in for a few races here and there but....i do not consider him a MountainBike racer.

He's not stealing anything from anyone. He's competing to win against the best mountain bike racers in the world and succeeding. The argument about not taking the same risks as the pure XC guys doesn't add up to me. He's been racing on the road, which is probably more dangerous and has probably accumulated more race days than most of the XC guys in 2024. I don't understand why people don't want to see the biggest talents racing in their disciplines, it should raise the bar for the other riders.

In 2015 Pauline Ferrand-Prevot was the first cyclist to ever be the world champion at MTB, CX, and road, all in the same year. Under your rules, that could never happen. Also, which one did she 'steal' from other people? I remember when I was merely a decent swimmer, a decent runner, but a very good mountain biker. Entered an XTerra race (off-road triathlon) and overtook everyone in the MTB leg. I didn't "steal" my trophy from the XTerra racers who were doing the entire series.

salty! You don’t want pidcock to win, but with your rule he would win every race? I don’t understand

Agree, absolutely. I can't imagine the mental effect he has on the other riders whenever he shows up for a race. Lap one from the back of the field and he just finished a week long stage race.

haha...you're kidding right? not even ranked top 10. i guess he might be ranked differently as a roadie or gravel, but WGAF about that

He wins pretty much every world cup he enters. His ranking is low because he races mostly on the road. But look at his win percentage. It is Schurter level.

@@mikew466 Schurter is nothing compares to Tom

@@TasteLikeChicken Tour de Suisse and Tour de France all training for the Olympics MTB Cross-country

Agree, absolutely.

Rob and Aaron Ginn for DH. Rob and the Swiss dude don’t know his name for XC excellent excellent commentary exciting made me wanna watch.

Agree 100%. He and Bart were the best ever.

In the XCO race. This was the short track XCC race.

@@jezanduwhat does the letters stand for differently?

@@hudzo7795 they are dubious in meaning. XCC is supposed to be cross country short track and XCO is cross country Olympic length. At least that's the only information I could find on their names.

@@jezandu thanks! I found out afterwards, not in the whole thing yet with xc mtb : )

Not just Mexico! Asia too. Discovery Networks sucks

@@DesignbikeEpic also I subscribed to GCN and disappeared. UCI sucks this times