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2026 UEC Track European championship, 1-5 Feb. (www.uec.ch)

submitted 1 month ago by Deschanel2017@lemmings.world to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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So, it has been going on for 2 days already, and I had completely forgotten about it.

I guess the position so early in the year doesn't help the visibility of this already less-visible discipline.

Something I don't understand is that I thought that, this year, it should have been part of the Super European Championship, where all cycling disciplines are gathered. It was in 2022 that Viviani won gold at the Elimination track race in the evening, after having ridden more than 200 km in the road race in the afternoon and finished 7^th^!

While the 'Super' event can look rather packed, in my opinion the World version of it, in Glasgow 2 or 3 years ago, gave a much better visibility overall.

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[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Women elimination: Kopecky seemed to be back in shape, she was so sure of her strength that she was most of the time simply riding at the front of the bunch (in the second line). And she won.

She's indeed in a damn good shape! She also won the Points race (again ahead of Victoire Berteau who should be renamed SecondBest Berteau); and now the American race: after they messed up a little bit their sprints during a good while (Britain was dominating everyone else), they pressed the pedals 40 laps from the goal, and little by little dropped those who followed or caught up with them. It took 'em 35 laps to gain 1 lap, but they could score maximum sprint points during that time. In fact, I see it this way: they rode this race like a road classic, like they would break away 30 or 40 km from the line, and then thin the breakaway little by little until they were alone and then reach the final line.

BTW, the race went well this time, despite a crash as soon as the end of the formation laps and a few fails; I had terrible memories from the awful technical level a few other women American races.

On the sprint side, Mathilde Gros is also back in shape: she won the Kilometre (she hasn't got the big tights her competitors have, so she was behind in the first laps where more power is needed to build speed, but went faster in the second part), and finished second in Keirin behind the Russian Lysenko.