David Valero, runner-up in the mountain bike world after Nino Schurter in Les Gets

In an amazing career ending in the 33rd edition of the Les Gets Mountain Bike World Championship (France)the Swiss Nino Schurter At the age of 36, he was already proclaimed mountain bike world champion, ahead of the man from Granada David Valero and from Italian Luca Braidot. The Galician Paul Rodriguez is the 20th, both members of BH-Temple Cafesthe Olympian-led team Carlos Coloma.

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This cross country event closed beautifully, held under a blazing sun and after French Prevot added his fourth world title, after those in 2015, 2019 and 2020.

A technical and difficult race, which Nino Schurter wants to make difficult at the start and where David Valeroas he said in an interview with MD, arrived in good condition and convinced that he can fight toe-to-toe with the best, although he warned that this is a circuit that the Swiss likes and that it will be very difficult to beat. him.

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However, sometimes the one from Baza topped the test. The seven-lap race is always ordered by Valero, Schurter and Braidotwith the British pidcock that he made more than one mistake and when he got to the head he put the straight away and nobody seemed to beat him. But the MTB races were a world and a new mistake, when he got caught against a tree and had to change the rear tire in the technical zone, knocking him out of contention for medals.

Final head to head between Schurter and Valero

The battle for gold, except for the incident, was between Valero and Schurter, between second and first classified in the MTB World Cup. David was incredible, he pushed all he could out of Nino. Since Braidot was absent, the gold was a matter of two. Valero started the last lap first, but Nino continued to attack and could not match his rush. “My legs lack freshness at the end,” Valero acknowledged at the end, while defining the medal he was just won as “incredible” and which adds to a long list of winners which the bronze in the past Games shines with its own light. . Tokyo Olympics.

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Nino and David, and the best runner in the world, will meet again on September 4 in the final race of Mountain Bike World Cup in Val di Sole (Italy).