There was a re-shuffling of the highest three spots within the second spherical of girls’s elite racing in Brazil on the Whoop UCI Mountain Bike World Cup, with Haley Batten (Specialised Manufacturing unit Racing) persevering with her profitable kind in Araxá on Sunday by including the elite ladies’s cross-country Olympic (XCO) victory to Saturday’s brief monitor (XCC) win.
Batten and the winner of the primary Brazilian spherical in Mairiporã, Jenny Rissveds (Workforce 31 Ibis Cycles Continental), had been locked in battle within the remaining lap with the rider from the USA in the end attacking and carving out a spot of 17 seconds on the Swedish rider by the end line. Batten’s compatriot, Savilia Blunk (Decathlon Ford Racing Workforce) – who had taken second place within the opening spherical of racing for 2024 – held on for third in Araxá.
“It’s loopy,” stated Batten after the race. “You practice so exhausting all winter however to place all of it collectively on race day when it’s so tactical like that, I simply had no concept what was occurring, so to tug it off feels insane. For each Savilia and me this can be a large yr, for the Olympic Video games, so yeah, a fairly good day.”