Victor Koretzky takes the lead of the World Cup

Last Saturday, at the end of the first race of the season, Short Track format (XCC) in Araxa in Brazil, second on the finish line a few lengths from his teammate, the American Christopher Blanvins (specialized), Victor Koretzky was pretty good.

Admittedly, the team race has its requirements but the member of the Narbonnais Sprint bike, Olympic vice-champion in Paris 2024 behind Tom Pidcock and the title world champion of the specialty, wanted to. In the penultimate tour of the race, placed in third position, in ambush for the final, the original Narbonnais committed a technical fault, set foot on the ground, re-laid his bike by running and left on his pedals in tenth position.

Too far to play the win but Victor Koretzky made the tour record in 2’27 ”, returned to the wheel of his teammate who awaits this moment to produce his effort. A dry turn on the right saw the two men touching each other, shoulder against shoulder, as in the last round of the Olympic race last July with the future Olympic champion Tom Pidcock. However, no confusion between the two teammates. This allowed the American team to achieve the double.

The next day, in the Olympic format, a taste of revenge hovered, in fact, on the circuit. The two runners were going to get their stuff for nine and a half before Victor Koretzky ultimately Use his teammate, place a brutal acceleration and goes to the finish despite a slow puncture in the last hectometers.

Two podiums, a first success of which placed the tricolor runner at the top of the provisional classification of the Mountain Mountain Cup. The next round of the World Cup will take place in the Czech Republic, in Nové Mesto Na Moravé (May 23 to 25). The global event (nine innings) will end in Canada, Mont St-Anne (October 11 and 12). In France, the Détets station – The Portes du Soleil will welcome runners on August 30 and 31.