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

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[Music] And then they will wait for the gun and they are off in racing here in pal. Aaron Salandor. Jen Jackson extremely strong off the line as Laura Steer on the right hand side up the inside leads them up the climb on the first lap. Four wins in a row for the FL Dutch woman. We talked about it before about the altitude and it means these races are just going to have to be respect this short track a little bit more and we’re going to see maybe a bit more of a KG race. Yep, it’s definitely uh the altitude. [Music] Richard, Rristford, Peterson, Keller, Jackson Ster. Oh going down going down. Just getting stuck between lines slightly there. Ollie. Yeah, it’s so loose. And you just came off between the two. Oh, in the wrong gear now as well. Stuck in a massive gear trying to get moving again. As the race goes on, you just mean all that blood’s going to your legs like you say, less to your head. The arms start to go a bit and that dexterity and that fine skill goes. Just struggling to see where Puck Peterson is at the front of this one. Fifth position at the moment. Just drifted back a little bit. All of a sudden, not quite. S Maxwell still 14th now. And it’s amazing once you get a bad start. Yeah. And it’s a scrap now. They’re all going to have a fight. They all want to be in the single track. There’s an attack from Puck Peterson up the bottom of this climb. just use it as a springboard and it’s going to be first into the woods and maybe a little feeler there Ollie but Richards did well to respond to that one. Yeah, that was a pretty stinging attack but you saw there was a soon as she attacked there was little gaps appearing. Jen Jackson just struggling to follow a little bit and I think that I think Puck’s tactic is going to be just keep hitting them every time. Peterson on the canyon bike from Alison to Kernik. [Applause] Keller at the front now. Leads them for the first time. Header Richards Peterson Risfords. Rristids doing what we’re used to seeing Jenny Rfords do here. Ollie just keeping her nose clean. We look at Keller really putting the pressure down and it’s actually Puck Peters’s just struggling a little bit. We know Keller’s coming into form like I say Swiss cross cross country champion last week and twotime winner here. Loves the course. Loves the altitude. There’s Ra Blinger live factory racing. But Keller looking like she’s really really pushing. Richard’s looking so strong. Blurtinger past Peterson now. Ra Blinger on the podium as things stand. As they head onto the start finish straight, Eevee Richards looks over the wrong shoulder. 178 beats per minute deep into the red zone on her Whoop live. Eevee Richards stands on the pedals, climbs up the start finish straight. She took that UCI world champs win on last season. Grits the teeth. One lap to go, but we know Alisander Keller is extremely strong. Keller, is this going to be enough? Are we going to see Aleandra Keller take a UCI World Cup win? You see the Richarden just struggling to get some air back in the lungs. I think if Eevee can get back on terms, we know she’s probably got the better sprint. But Keller pushing on through the single track. A win here for Keller would pull her even with Pauline Farra on six career UCI World Cup short track wins. Rich is just that little bit fast, but there’s a proper gap there. Even Rich is carrying speed into this off camera section. This is going to come down to the final straight. You’d have to think if Richards can get across this gap, but look, Keller doesn’t want to let her across. Keller does not want to let the UCI world champion back on her back wheel before the final sprint of the line are roared on by the crowd in the woods. Keller emerges from the woods first. Alleandra Keller, the Swift Star. Shoulders rolling, head rolling, every single ounce of energy going into that Tumis Maxin bike. Eevee Richards, you got one climb left and here we go. They’re going to head on for the start finish. Alisandra Keller, is she going to be able to stay ahead of Eevee Richards? Alisandra Keller going for her first win since Leier 2024. Alisandra Keller is undefeated in the short track in Palar and Salandor. Three wins in a row. Ollie, how far did she go from that time? It’s going to take some recovery to get over that. I feel like I’ve got lactate on a chair here in Palaron S. Keller wins by 4 seconds. Burkelinger career best finish for her. Her previous best was a sixth. 10 seconds back in third place for Live Factory Racing. Then it was Peterson, Kohler, Jackson, Stiger, Risfits, Veman, Forchini rounded out the top 10. Honestly, uh I think you everyone knows how my winter was. So, um coming back from an injury is never easy. So, I can’t complain any um how it worked at the beginning. But, uh I mean obviously Andor is a very good spot for me. So, I’m very very happy to get the win here again. [Music]