The 2020 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup season finally kicked off at the weekend with a double-header round in Maribor, Slovenia. Round 1 kicked off with qualifying on the Thursday (15 October) and race runs on the Friday (16 October) and saw riders dealing with wet and wild conditions. Reece Wilson, the new World Champion, qualified in 1st for the ...
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Between The Races – A Downhill MTB Film
Monster Energy followed their elite Downhill MTB athletes to find out what goes on outside of the race tape. They travelled the globe to get behind-the-scenes, unfiltered access to the greatest in the game. Released as a series in 2019 and now with unseen footage and narration by World Cup legend Steve Peat, the full feature film Between The Races ...
Read More »The Syndicate – MSA World Champs + Snowshoe Episode
A full length episode banger containing the final two races of the season – The 2019 Downhill MTB World Championships from Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, and the final World Cup from Snowshoe, USA. See how Greg Minnaar, Luca Shaw and Loris Vergier finished off their season…
Read More »Video | 2019 UCI Downhill MTB World Championship Winning Runs
History was made in Mont-Saint-Anne, Canada at the 2019 UCI Downhill MTB World Championships where Loic Bruni and Myriam Nicole took top honours in the elite Men’s and Women’s finals. Loic Bruni It was a dominant weekend for the French riders in Canada. Bruni made history by winning his fourth world title, and Nicole returned to racing from from injury to put down ...
Read More »Video | 2019 Downhill MTB World Cup Leogang Podium Runs
The third stop of the 2019 UCI Downhill MTB World Cup took place in Leogang, Austria over the weekend. The track, with newly added sections, produced extremely exciting and close racing. There was no room for error forcing riders to put a perfect top-to-bottom run together in order to be in contention. Greg Minnaar had a pearler of a weekend ...
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