World Champs – Sam and Stevie

The 2010 Mountain Bike World Championships wrapped up yesterday in the pouring rain of Mont Saint Anne in Canada.

Tracy Moseley took the womens crown by over 7 seconds and it was Sam Hill, in only his 2nd race back after an injury lay-off that took the men’s honours.

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Rob Warner interviews Greg Minnaar and Steve Peat at Mont St. Anne

 

Here Rob interviews Sam Hill, Brendan Fairclough and Troy Brosnan

Gee and Rachel Atherton answer the call of the mic

DIRT TV: MSA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS THURSDAY TIMED TRAINING
In the past, World Championships finals have been preceded by a seeding run allowing the riders (and team managers) to employ some tactics to combat weather changes and generally mess with peoples heads by seeding low down the order. The new system uses the UCI ranking to seed the riders, with a mandatory timed training run to allow the riders to gauge their speed against their competitors.

Dirt TV:Bike Check
Sam Hill, Steve Peat, Rachel Atherton, Marc Beaumont, Mitch Delfs and Chris Kovarik give us the low down on their 2010 World Championship bikes. Sickness!

Timed Practice
The Timed Practice session for World Championships wrapped up today.  Greg Minnaar showed his early pace with the fastest time by 2 seconds.

DIRTTV: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 4X QUALIFYING
Rinderknecht pins it for fastest time, Graves punctures and Katy Curd goes big over the doubles.

Full results here.

4x Finals tonight at 21.00pm local time or 02.00am in the UK for you night owls.

Practice has kicked off for the 2010 World Downhill MTB Championships in Mont Saint Anne in Canada.  With one of the best courses on the circuit looking dry and dusty and no clear favorite to take the win its surely going to be one of the best Worlds in recent years!

Check out the action from Day One

DirtTV: World Championships Tuesday Practice

World Champs practice kicked off today here in Mont-Sainte-Anne. The track is blown out and dusty already, large parts of the track remain the same so the riders are getting straight into the swing of things.

We are in French Canada so French riders have the option of doing interviews for Dirt TV in French if they really want to!  Damien says: “For the moment it seems not bad, there’s a lot of height loss and it seems very dry and fast rolling, I think it’s going to ride very fast!”

Steve PEAT Helmet Cam Mont Sainte Anne 2010

Thunder down the MSA Worlds track with reigning World Champion Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar and the Gallagher brothers.

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This is it folks.  The World Cup is over for the year and the World Champs all comes down to one race.  Could Peaty – who appears to be back up to speed – repeat at age 36?  Is the battle really between Minnaar and Gee?  Or will a Blenky sneak in for a win?  Perhaps Sam Hill will have done some healing in a week.  Call it in advance here…