2023-08-12 15:07:52
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot only dropped her world champion jersey for 1 hour, 24 minutes and 14 seconds. The rainbow stripes didn’t physically appear on her outfit, but it was easy to imagine them back on her shoulders after less than 20 minutes of running. During the first lap, she let her compatriot Loana Lecomte take the lead in these Cross-Country Mountain Bike (XCO) World Championships.
The young Frenchwoman (24 years old) was 5 seconds ahead of “PFP” on the first crossing of the line. But the outgoing champion had already started the hunt. She came back to her youngest before dropping her into the second loop. Driven by the conservation of its title in short-track Thursday, the Rémoise (31 years old) flew away.
She crossed the finish line one last time one minute and 14 seconds ahead of Lecomte, who finished the race with a smile, indicating the number two with his fingers. The Dutch Puck Pieterse completed the podium. French mountain biking has seen double since 2022. Last year, the Ineos Grenadiers rider had already won at Les Gêts, in short-track as well as in cross-country. In Scotland, she therefore offered herself a double double. His legend now weighs five titles in XCO.
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