Trek CXC Cup Day 1 Men's Race Highlight Clips (UCI C1 Event)

Описание: Men’s Pro Race

Wisconsin native Tristan Schouten grabbed the hole-shot, but it wasn’t long before Jeremy Powers (Aspire Racing) took the lead that he would carry all the way to the finish.

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Powers entered the hilly section of the course with a 6 second gap over the field led by Shawn Milne (Boulder Cycle-Sport/YogaGlo) and Jeremy Durrin (Neon Velo.)
For Powers, this was all to plan.

“It felt great. This is a good course, really fast. There’s not a lot of places to find a ton of time so for me today I was thinking that it would be great to get out there and get a nice gap early and really establish myself,” said Powers. “I didn’t want to come out in 13th place, or 20th place and have someone crash in front of me given how technical it is right at the start. I established a good gap and then ran with it. I built it up and then hung onto it. It was pretty turnkey; it was exactly what I expected from myself.”

With six to go Powers rolled through the start finish comfortably off the front with two chasers, Tim Johnson (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) and Milne, charging hard.

At 4 to go, no competitors were in sight as Powers continued his dominating ride. Behind him, Johnson continued to attack Milne, who responded to each effort. Alan Krughoff (Noosa Professional Cyclocross) and Ben Berden (Raleigh-Clement) followed just off the pace.

With Powers comfortably in the lead at 3 to go, the sparring for second continued as Milne launched an unsuccessful attack on the pavement through the start finish. Johnson bided his time and waited for Milne to make a mistake before countering.

“As we were going along I could tell I had pretty good pace on him [Milne] so I’d get a couple seconds on him and he’d close it eventually,” said Johnson. “I was behind him and I was hoping he’d be pushing it, and maybe he’d take a risk that wouldn’t pay off. Sure enough he ended up going down in one of the slippery corners.”
The bell lap found Powers digging to fend off a late charge from Johnson, who’d opened a significant gap over Milne. Krughoff had shaken off Berden on the back section of the course with 2 laps to go and rolled through solo in 4th.

Powers was too strong and stayed away for the solo win. Johnson took 2nd, Milne 3rd, Krughoff 4th, and Berden 5th.

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