The UCI Mountain Bike World Series live broadcasts kick off this weekend with the opening rounds of the Endurance formats in Nové Město na Moravě, CZE.
Cross-country racing is one of the founding formats of mountain bike racing and in 1996 saw the sport elevated from its roots as an outlier of mainstream cycling into a legitimate Olympic sport in its own right. Some of the most insanely skilled and unbelievably physically fit athletes in the world compete in Cross-country racing and it has become world renowned as one of the most dramatic two-wheeled sports in existence.
The weekend kicks off with Friday night’s UCI Mountain Bike Short-track World Cup races. Short-track (XCC) sees a stacked field of pro’s racing on a condensed version of Sunday’s full course for a reduced period of time. The result is high octane, high stakes racing with the results not only determining the grid positions for Sunday’s race but also the points for the UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country Short Track World Cup overall.
Saturday is all about the new-look UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country Marathon World Cup. Marathon (XCM) sees racers depart from Nové Město na Moravě’s iconic start/finish line and head out for two mammoth 60km laps of some of the Czech Republic’s finest trails. If you want to test yourself against the world’s toughest race courses then check out Open Racing.
Sunday is the big one, the one that they all want to win - the first round of the UCI Mountain Bike Cross-country Olympic World Cup! The course in Nové Město na Moravě is a riders favourite featuring technical descents and power-sapping climbs. Racers will battle it out over a set number of laps to see who can be the first to the line in the Vysočina Arena.
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