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Monday, December 12, 2022

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Men's & Women's World Cup Dublin Cyclocross race reports

Mens race:

Wout van Aert: Triumphant and muddy.

The race: Here's the report from winner Wout van aert's Team Jumbo-Visma.

Wout van Aert took his first season's cross victory in Dublin. He had a few unlucky moments in a thrilling World Cup cross, but he recovered well, and the 28-year-old Belgian crossed the finish line solo.

Van Aert started the race from the second row and immediately caught up to the lead. However, the Belgian was thrown back twice due to a steering error and a cleaning cloth in his rear derailleur. Van Aert reclaimed the lead after closing a 20-second margin. A lap later, the Belgian cyclocross champion picked up speed and pulled away from the other six leaders. In his second cyclocross race of the year, Van Aert quickly increased the gap and finished with a fourteen-second advantage over Laurens Sweeck.

“It was simply horrible bad luck”, Van Aert described the cleaning cloth in his derailleur. "Fortunately, I quickly felt something was blocking at the back, and I got the right to turn around. That’s how I stayed in the race. That was just when I started to feel a bit better. It was challenging at first, and I thought my riding technique was lacking. I had to get used to the changed circumstances. After the bike change, I was shaken up. It was a tough race. In the end, the course proved tough enough to make a difference. Besides, it was nice to meet the Irish fans. I enjoyed it."

Results:

  1. Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) 59min 36sec
  2. Laurens Sweeck (Crelan-Fristads) @ 14sec
  3. Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers) @ 17sec
  4. Lars Van der Haar (Baloise Trek Lions) @ 19sec
  5. Michael Vanthourenhout (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) @ 22sec
  6. Jens Adams (Belgium) @ 33sec
  7. Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) @ 35sec
  8. Pim Ronhaar (Baloise Trek Lions) @ 37sec
  9. Corné van Kessel (Tormans) @ 46sec
  10. Cameron Mason (Trinity Racing) @ 58sec

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Women's race:

Fem van Empel on her way to winnng in Dublin. Photo: Photopress.be

The race: Here's a machine-translation of the report from winner Fem van Empel's Team Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal

Due to an upset stomach, Fem van Empel was not in top shape at the start in Ireland, but she still finished it. In the first lap she took the lead together with teammate Denise Betsema, but in the end it became a very interesting duel with Puck Pieterse. At the end of the final lap, a strong Fem came out on top. Denise rode alone to third place, junior Fleur Moors finished tenth after a great start.

Fem van Empel finishes a couple of seconds ahead of Puck Pieterse

Fem van Empel: “My stomach wasn't one hundred percent today. That got worse during the race. I tried to make the best of it anyway. Puck drove off every now and then, but I was always able to come back strong. It wasn't my legs today. We were pretty evenly matched, and then it's just fighting it out to the finish. Today it was for me, and I am very happy about that. I am glad that I was able to do this today.”

Results:

  1. Fem van Empel (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) 47min 13sec
  2. Puck Pieterse (Alpecin-Deceuninck) @ 2sec
  3. Denise Betsema (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) @ 1min 37sec
  4. Inge Van der Heijden (777) @ 2min 26sec
  5. Marie Schreiber (Rormans) @ 2min 27sec
  6. Manon Bakker (Crelan-Fristads) @ 3min 39sec
  7. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (France) @ 4min 39sec
  8. Sidney McGill (Canada) @ 4min 50sec
  9. Millie Couzens (Crelan-Fristads) @ 4min 53sec
  10. Fleur Moors (Belgium) @ 5min 22sec

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Remco Evenepoel’s World Champion’s Rainbow Jersey revealed

Here’s the post from Evenepoel’s Team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl:

One of the most coveted garments in sport, the rainbow cycling jersey denotes the reigning World Champion of the discipline. The honour of adorning the famous jersey in 2023 as Men’s Elite World Road Race Champion falls to 22-year-old Remco Evenepoel, who will keep the tunic within the team for the third straight season.

Remco Evenepoel in his new World Champion's kit.

Designed and produced in conjunction with our clothing partner Castelli, the jersey will for first time adorn the team’s new name of Soudal Quick-Step, with the Belgian based Soudal joining as lead co-title sponsor, alongside Quick-Step, a name now synonymous with cycling. The team has the classic black and white look aside from the red of Soudal and the multi-colored stripes denoting the World Champion, and have paired with black shorts to complete the stylish and classic look.


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In a video made by the team, Remco tells of his thoughts on wearing the jersey going into the new season, following his win at the World Championships on that fateful day in Wollongong, last September, when he attacked alone with more than 25 kilometers to go and triumphed by over two minutes – the biggest winning margin at the event since 1968.

This came hot on the heels of his win at La Vuelta earlier in that month, which saw him become the first Grand Tour winner in the team’s twenty-year history and the first Belgian in more than four decades to conquer a three-week race. Evenepoel – the youngest rider in history to win a Monument, a Grand Tour and the Worlds in the same season – will hope to follow up this success at the Giro d’Italia, which it was recently announced he would ride in 2023, his fifth year with the Wolfpack.

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