If you are new to watch the World Cup Mountain Bike, the chair for five people may seem like overkill. You have the usual gold, silver and bronze, but then squeezed in the talent ends of the fourth and fifth next to Podium. The road race does not do it. Doesn’t even have cyclokross. So what does it give?
It is like strange and grass roots, as the mountain bike of the story behind this extended chair.
Story of origin: Cairns, 1994
All in 1994, in Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia began in a UCI World Cup.
“In 1994, Cairns were only three thousand in the World Cup chair in 1994,” said Martin Whiteley MissSpent Summers Blog. He was the General Director of the Australian bike at that time. “But Most of the 17-year-olds of a young 17-year-old child named Cadel Evans from Australia sat in third place. Since then, the MTB race has been known for the best.”
So … Is it really considered like a podium 4 or 5?
Ask around the mountain bike world and you will receive a number of answers. We gave the question to a bunch of Canadian athlete: Is it considered as a fourth or fifth place “Chair”? Here’s what they said:
Mirando mill
“If you’re in 4th or 5. But it’s strange. I am not aware of a large number of sports, which are a five-seater chair, so the first three makes sense. I think five people take a good picture, “he says.” YOU is a good photo, but there are certain stages I thought it was important for athletes, and this is the first three and the top three in Europe are adults in North America. “
Ella McPhee
“It’s an extended podium,” says Ella. “It’s only the first three in U23, but it’s nice to know him for the fourth and fifth sponsors. Very bad, the elite world trophies.”
Ian Ackert
“I think the elite should be the best five podiums in the World Cup, but must be the first three for all other competitions (even the U23 World Cup).”
Haley Smith
“In fact, I think this is such an interesting question,” he said. “We can really enter the philosophy of this! The original format of the Olympics (ie the modern Olympic Games, but the original Greek Olympiad), not only the first place. In the MTB, ‘extended’ podium was cultural. This means that we consider it a result of the first five to admit the first five; The top five is the cream with the words that rose to the top. So why five? Why three?
In person, I think five people are a good thing, because it can really increase the depth of competition; Whether it’s something good or bad, I think there is more athletes in the field that gives more things in a chair hopes. If you bring a award a little closer, psychologically, people will provide more than 100 percent. So in a way, I think it improves the quality of competition. “
Owen Clark
“Depends on the race,” says Clark. “The World Cup is XCO five, but XCC is just three of them. “
Emily johnston
“Yes, I think so,” Johnston, with enthusiastic support for five people form.
Cole Punchard
“Hey, according to the discovery of Warner Bros., says. “I am sure that this is a new rule for world cups this year. 100 percent is not sure, but I thought I heard it to someone. “
Andrew L’Esperance
“Yes, I believe this is MTB and the podium in MTB and MTB, it has been so long, because the areas are deeper and more hardened, to give them an opportunity to spend their sponsors and supporters.”
So … are the new three five?
Mountain bikes did everything in their way all the time. Sports were born in the velodromes, but in the mountain and forest. It develops in the rebellious strip. The more efforts that make more efforts, more efforts, more battles, more battles are only a small but meaningful part of the ethics. At the end of the day, if you stand there, if you’re on top step or side you probably won.
And hey, more Merrier?
