After the euphoria of Friday, the gray face of Sunday. Arrived on this third race in the Olympic format of the season with full confidence after his victory on the short track, Jordan Sarrou (Team BMC) was quickly disillusioned on Sunday in Leogang (Austria), unable to fight for victory or the podium. . The Stéphanois even cracked at the end of the race and finished outside the top 10 (11th). Victory went to Swiss Lars Forster (Thömus Maxon), solo winner ahead of German Luca Schwarzbauer (Canyon CLLCTV), second, and Czech Ondrej Cink (Primaflor Mondraker Genuins Racing Team), third. First Frenchman of the day, Thomas Griot (Canyon CLLCTV) finished seventh.
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Sarrou new leader of the World Cup
This season is unique, the races follow each other but are not alike. If the women’s set has found a boss in the person of Puck Pieterse, her male counterpart does not know where to turn. Winner of a historic 34th victory at Lenzerheide, Nino Schurter did not exist this weekend (17th Friday and 21st Sunday). Jordan Sarrou did not do much better today (11th), even if this result allows the Stéphanois to take control of the World Cup.
Present in a group of eight which was quickly isolated at the front, at the cost of a thunderous start to the race signed Luca Schwarzbauer, Sarrou quickly faced his limits in the attic portions. Victims of the crazy pace set by the German, the Stéphanois and Joshua Dubau (14th, Rockrider Ford Racing Team) paid for this violent and early effort at the halfway mark. Author, as usual, of a fantastic comeback, Thomas Griot (7th) supplanted his two compatriots and finished first in France.
As with the ladies, ease uphill was the key to bet for victory. Twirling, the Swiss Lars Forster and Mathias Flückiger martyred their opponents in the hills. However, the second suffered a rear wheel puncture on the fourth lap. Enough to put an end to his dreams of victory and a podium, despite a titanic comeback (5th at the finish). Forster was spared by the fate and flew away at the start of the last lap, pinning Schwarzbauer and Cink in the overheated land of Leogang. Three races in Olympic format, three different winners. The turn of a Frenchman in Val di Sole?
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