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And I think one gave it for the top, Volring tries again, but no one really drops.
And Niedermeyer then tries to push a little bit.
No one drops.
We get over the top with those four riders.
And like you said, in that downhill, I was kind of surprised that the downhill of Isabella Holmgren was not of the charts because you always have this like pre...
preset stereotype that mountain bikers are S tier descenders and
With Hongwen today, that didn't seem to be the case.
That's not necessarily an awful rider.
I'm not saying that.
I'm saying that is seemingly not the strength that I maybe expected it to be as a consequence of her mountain bike history.
But she was being put on gaps in corners.
It wasn't enough to drop her in the downhill.
All four of them basically went to the last two kilometers, and we were going to have a sprint here in the last 1.5k, but...
I think the first move came from Holmgren.
Dad was caught.
Then Niedermeyer went and went into the last kilometer in first position because her attack failed.
But the next one, Patrick, is Holmgren is in a perfect position now because Niedermeyer at the front is in a position where she's like, I'm not...
I'm not going to ride you guys to the sprint.
Like, I'm not going to just pace the last kilometer till the sprint happens.
So she wants to drop the tempo as much as possible.