RACE HIGHLIGHTS | Elite Men 2025 XCC | Round 6 Pal Arinsal | UCI Short-Track World Cup

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here in Palaron Sal and Dora and they go green. Vidari slightly slow off the line. Fle extremely good start for the rider in red and leads him around the righthander for the first time. Schwarz bars up alongside him on the right hand side though as the pack all stay upright. Yeah, good start as well for Mattz Flukinger on the inside. You can see this split line section for the first time. Fluger folds himself around that tree beautifully. Yeah, good start. You see Nino Sher just going for that right line, gaining a few spots as well, but it’s always a bit sketchy as he’s riding these two lines. And you can see the bottleneck now starting to form as Fluter just gets on with getting at the front. Super punchy start by Matz looking up. We need to talk about that man on in the shop now. Victor Caretsky Ollie, he needs a win this year, doesn’t he? He needs to establish himself back at the front of the short track. Yeah, world champion here last year and I just say not quite being firing especially the last couple of races on the gold bike from origine racing division getting up in amongst it as well. There’s your UCI world champion Victor Caretsky with Martin Vari in close company. Clevens though just marking fluker like certain brands of stout they don’t travel well but get them into Europe to Max come alive with a big big crash watch bar goes down that dodgy corner it’s super loose and that’s where we saw Martina Ba go down in the elite women’s race and the same thing all of a sudden you’re in the wrong gear at the bottom of a climb though look at that well we we mentioned it in the elite women’s race didn’t we’ll see more of this come Sunday that up this high this little oxygen around the chances of pilot error are increased in them with Thomas Ler though liter 22 now short track rider to be around so there’s the two giant riders lion ster woods and half there looks to be up and moving all right good to see the scotch ram riders just having to slot his bike in there on the left hand side the elbows There’s Charlie Aldridge. Look at Martan’s teammate. He is looking fast to that line. And it’s Martan going to take the lead with that line choice as well. Looked like it just smashed back together again. Yeah, Martan in the lead now ahead of Blevens. And Blevens will have to be wary of this move because Martan full of confidence from that French national champs win. I think Chris Leven will be happy for Luka Martin to take the lead a bit. This means he can sit back and follow. It’s really really lumpy on the exit off the woods there as you can see as they fight for position up into the right hand side here. But Martan I think is just a little bit faster. Oh, Aldridge into the lead now. So Charlie Aldridge really making that right hand line work for him and doing a really good race so far. He didn’t have the best of starts. His gridding was a little further back. Just looking down the bike though took a chain off. It’s another He’s had another problem with a chain. Charlie Aldridge in 2025 cannot catch a mechanical break and that puts Christopher Blevens into the lead of this race. Ollie Beckale not liking what he’s seeing. Absolute nightmare. He hits the front. He’s doing the perfect race and then a mechanical chain off. Nino Sher, but you can see this attack from Caretski on the left hand side. Bleven’s marked him for most of it, but Caresi got the job done. Two specialized two Scott trams. That’s a nail in an Orian. A strain number on a short track’s impressive, but so is this attack from Christopher Blevens up the climb. Martan goes with him. Aaro tries to go with him. But Martin’s got it covered. But the way that Chris Blevens liked to ride he did that big attack and therefore he needs Victor Ketsky down and he’s taken Nino Sher with him and it’s a chain that’s gone. Martan attacks. Blevens up the climb. Aaro’s right there. Aaro’s been with them all race long at the front, but Martan leads them in the woods on the last lap. He cuts round. There’s no recovery now. Martan grits his teeth. This is it. Time to burn whatever matches you have left. Christopher Blevens, undefeated in 2025, is in second place currently. They’re up out of the saddle. They’re heading for the start finish. Levens has got a problem in the shape of Luca Martan to solve here. Cannondale versus Specializ. Here they go under the start finish straight for the last time. It’s Martan versus Blevens. Martan kicks. Bleven sticks deep. Christopher Blevens has the play second place for the first time in 2025. [Music] Here’s what it means for excuse me. Here are the results of the race then. Martan, Blevens, Aaro, your top three. Then it was Columbo, Sink, Woods, Haffily, Andreasen, Brido, and Sher now 10. Yeah, it’s amazing to ride with the big guys because yeah, it’s my first year elite and last week I’m French championship two time and yeah, I think he’s amazing block and but uh yeah, uh I don’t understand now. I need to s for understand like it’s my first win. But yeah, so many work with the team and so happy the back work so well on this track and the tire everything for the official picture. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Chris. And gentlemen, it’s time to pop the carts and celebrate this day of racing with a final It’s Pandora.