With the mud and flat tires spreading the race out, the battle for third was one of the highly contested fights on the day. Photo: footage from Sporza
Yesterday, the New Year rang off with some familiar winners, with Katerina Nash and Wout van Aert both pegging victories at the GP Sven Nys, with both athletes also taking wins at the end of 2014 race at Azencross. Unlike the chaotic racing that seemed to define the final races of the end of December, January started off with spread out podiums and athletes doing everything they could out alone.
Nash crosses the line in the Women’s Elite Race highlight video from Sporza, somehow looking chipper as ever with her customary hand-slapping as she crosses the finishing stretch. Wout van Aert, however, looks ready to collapse, along with most of the men who finished top twenty at the GP Sven Nys.
