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Sanne Cant (Crelan-Fristads) soloed to victory to say her 14th straight Belgian Cyclocross nationwide championship title in Lokeren on Saturday. Marion Norbert Riberolle and Alicia Franck rounded out the rostrum.
The 32-year-old closed out her cyclocross season with a commanding efficiency. She introduced this week she had given up hope of touchdown on the rostrum on the UCI Cyclocross World Championships.
“It does not appear to be I’ll all of the sudden have nice medal possibilities in Hoogerheide in three weeks’ time,” Cant instructed Sporza, including she would refocus on becoming a member of her new WorldTour staff Fenix-Deceuninck. “Then it appears higher to us to take a couple of weeks of additional relaxation and to shift the main focus extra shortly to the spring on the highway.”
There have been some doubts that Cant might proceed her streak after she skipped nearly all of the kerstperiode races in December. Norbert Riberolle was thought-about a favorite to dethrone her rival.
Nonetheless, the previously French rider suffered mechanical issues within the opening lap and needed to mount a chase from a distance.
Norbert Riberolle closed down the hole to Franck on the second lap and received as shut as 30 seconds to Cant however could not shut the gap and completed in tears at 1:20. Franck completed a distant third at 2:05.
“That is very irritating,” Norbert Riberolle stated afterward. “My chain received between the cassette and the rear wheel and received caught. That had additionally occurred throughout reconnaissance, however I believed it could be wonderful as soon as began. Not so. The morale was so fully gone.
“The dangerous luck was on my facet at the moment, sadly. I had been wanting ahead to this and I knew I had an opportunity to win the tricolor on this course. Now this opportunity is gone and I’ve to attend a minimum of one other 12 months.”
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