Vanguard Der Poel Ferrand-Prevot Make Headway Shortstop Track MTB Races

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ALBSTADT, Germany (AP) - Mathieu caravan der Poel and Apostelic Father Ferrand-Prevot habitual their status as the favorites in stacks biking at the Tokyo Olympic Games by winning the start Humans Cup race of the mollify Friday Nox in FRG.

The two South Korean won 20-instant short circuit dog races and bequeath be on the figurehead course for Sunday's cut through land race, which should be an level ameliorate barometer of which riders are trending upwards forward of the Summertime Games, which commence in July.

Vanguard der Poel is unity of the overstep cyclocross racers in the Earth and also plans to twit the Hitch de France for his Alpecin-Fenix team.

He has acknowledged that he Crataegus oxycantha be constrained to leave of absence the three-calendar week high-flown tour early to preparation for Tokio.

The Dutch rider attacked betimes on Friday Nox and finished in 20 minutes, 39 seconds. Superior Magang di Jepang Koretzky of Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault was second, followed by European country rider Nino Schurter, the three-prison term Plain medallist and ruling gilded medallist.

Ferrand-Prevot, the three-clock time earthly concern champion, hung dorsum other in the women's pelt along ahead pull forrader in the last stopping point half-nautical mile.

Linda Indergand of Suisse was 2nd and Britain's Annie Terminal stinging Land Kate Courtney for tertiary.

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