Puck Pieterse wins in her first elite MTB race in Nové Město: "I really thought I had completely blown myself up"
Mountain BikeMonday, 15 May 2023 at 07:00
The fact that Puck Pieterse is brimming with talent has been beyond dispute for some time, but the Dutch did something very special today. The young rider rode a World Cup mountain bike race for the first time today with the elites and immediately crossed the finish line first.
She only rode her first World Cup MTB race with the elite women today, but it did not prevent Puck Pieterse from unleashing in the Czech Nové Město. The Dutch all-rounder, who celebrated her 21st birthday on Saturday, was able to celebrate after a thrilling duel with none other than the reigning world champion, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
Afterwards, a frantic Pieterse searched for the right words. “I don't know what happened today… My start is usually good, but we were going so fast! I really thought I had completely blown myself up, but apparently that was also the case with the other riders.”
“Pauline and I rode together in pursuit of Evie, who got a flat tire after four laps. I was suddenly in the lead. I tried to stay calm in the final and it worked out well.”
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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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