{"id":182490,"date":"2018-04-22T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=182490\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T18:05:31","slug":"dh-wc1-losinj-gwin-pompon-pick-up-where-they-left-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/dh-wc1-losinj-gwin-pompon-pick-up-where-they-left-off\/","title":{"rendered":"DH WC#1: Lo\u0161inj – Gwin & PomPon Pick Up Where They Left Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lo\u0161inj, Croatia kicked off the 2018 season of the UCI DH World Cup\u00a0 nicely by shaking things up with a new course. The track on the Croatian island is the shortest in the history of the World Cup with a 1,390 meter length and just 243 meters in altitude, but there is more to the story.\u00a0The final stretch is about 20 seconds of “urban” racing through the streets, and dry stone walls surrounded most of the course,\u00a0which is as\u00a0rough as said stone walls. In any case, it\u00a0made the track\u00a0very\u00a0dangerous, increasing the tension amongst the athletes.<\/p>\n

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Despite its short length, the track itself proved to be demanding, for the most part extremely bumpy and very tortuous. Thus, the athletes had to fight to the best of their ability to assert themselves in their battle. It just shows how much the level is continuously increasing in Downhill,\u00a0regardless of the tracks on which the races play out.<\/p>\n