🍀Lucinda Brand s'est imposée sur #CXWorldCup de Dublin avec 38" d'avance sur Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado. Zoe Backstedt a complété le podium à 45" devant Marie Schreiber, cinquième à 57", et Inge van der Heijden, sixième à 1:10. 🌧️ #CX #Veldrijden #cyclocross
"This is a nice surprise" - Lucinda Brand shocks herself with dominant victory at Dublin World Cup
CyclocrossSunday, 26 November 2023 at 15:41
Lucinda Brand fully confirmed her return to form with a scintillating victory in Dublin, the 50th of her elite cyclocross career and her first UCI World Cup win since January 2022.
“It was a big battle after the start, but after the difficult and technical section I had a small lead. I immediately wanted to put the pressure on, although it was difficult to keep a gap, but it still seemed to break," said the Baloise - Trek Lions star in her post-race interview. “I felt super strong.”
Although the weather wasn't the best, the actual course was perfect for Brand. “It's a lot of pushing. I like that and was also able to get into a flow," she explains. "But it was also only possible to win with good legs. And if I have the strength, punching goes well for me. Even though it remains difficult, I was still able to recover along the way.”
With Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Zoe Backstedt completing the podium, Brand admits surprise at her level. Especially considering she was one of the few to complete a Saturday/Sunday double. “I had hoped for this, but certainly did not expect this. Certainly not that I would win this way," she concludes. "I especially hoped to fight until the end, then this is a nice surprise."
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- I counted 16 riders under 24 out of 43 that started. Once was only 16 ! Two of the top riders are Zoe and Schreiber and both under 23 yet that have done 50 min races in the past with the elites so I think it's just bad clock management. Let them race 50 freakin' minutes! One more lap could have made a big dffierence most times in the podium and winner.frieders319-11-2024
- He needs to finish out his contract and then go hit MTB and Cross/Gravel really hard, that's where his heart is.awp18-11-2024
- Pidcock is starting to sound like Froome now.Sweep18-11-2024
- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
- :-)Sweep17-11-2024
- What a mess there :-)
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