UCI Releases Highlights from Finale Ligure EDR
On Saturday, racers competed in the first round of the Enduro World Cup in Finale Ligure.
Watch the highlights of the race action below.
Three-time series winner Richie Rude continued his dominance with a strong performance, while Hattie Harnden won her first race since 2022. See the full results below.
Related: Finale Ligure EDR Provisional Results
The EDR in Finale was not without controversy. The race was held on a hot day. To make sure all riders completed the 5 stages in time, transfer time limits were tight, and didn't give much time for recovery between stages.
Noga Korem dropped out of the race after Stage 3 because she nearly crashed after dropping into the stage tired from hoofing it to make the transfer time cut.
Bex Baraona was able to finish but had similar complaints about the transfer time.
This begs the question if professional enduro might be better served by returning to the two-day format of the past to lessen the effect of logistical and time constraints of trying to complete a race in a day?
The EDR will return in less than a week in Bielsko-Biala, Poland, the home country of Slawomir Lukasik. Lukasik will be hungry after he led the race into the final stage before a flat tire took him out of contention.
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