Men Elite XCC Highlights | 2026 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships

Well, the lights go green and away go the elite men. This is the Cross-Country Short Track World Championships for 2026 and they are cleanly off the start. Long line of riders snaking their way around those turns at the moment. It's a big, big pack. Fidari Kosman goes through and leaps through, but look at this, very quickly up on to the front. Adrian Boaschi making a move with Luca Martin to get up there. It's coming back together. You see one or two riders fighting to get back into the wheels. And I think at the moment, Kerecki is going to be the rider sat between Group 1 and the chasing pack behind the front of this race. So led by Aldridge once again, as Aldridge just moves to one side, takes a little bit of a look over to the side to see who's going to take it up. And it's Boaschi on the front. It's the French 1-2-3 yet again. As Aldridge comes around the right-hand side, he wants to break the French deadlock. He doesn't want to let the opportunity go. As we see, Schwarzbauer come around. So he made his move up and he's now leading them on to this climb. And the three French back on the front. Boaschi leading again on to this climb. Mazzaro coming at the side. Martin on the inside, though, here. Oh, mistake by Aldridge there, just fall out. Yes, he stabs the floor, kicks himself back up again, quickly back in, no problems at all. Big move-back coming on the inside. Schwarzbauer comes up. Aldridge gets pushed almost in front of him there as they come in. That could have been nasty, but that came very close. We said there was going to be an attack, there's going to be a move, and it's coming from Boaschi. He came down the left-hand side. He came from about midway in that pack. He's going to wind the pace up now. This is going to be key because Aldridge is coming up on the inside. And this time around, Aldridge has got the pace to go inside of Boaschi. Boaschi gets pushed back. Big kick coming from the French down the side here. They're shuffling for position. And I think it's Lillund who made the move on the inside. It is, so Tobias Lillund on what is on the right, and the riders right as they came there. As Lillo comes back up to the fore. They go out onto the final lap of the 2026 Cross-Country Short Track World Championships. And it is indeed Dario Lillo who put in the push. But Aldridge is up there, and Aldridge is leading this out onto the climb for the final time. Look at this, the gap has been closed down by Boaschi. The push comes on right beside them. Luca Martin sitting in third position at the moment. All three can sprint. They've got big power. Aldridge leads this out. Boaschi sits in second position. Here he comes. Has Aldridge got enough? Is Boaschi going to get it? Aldridge has run out of gas. Adrian Boaschi takes away the world title for 2026 in the men's elite UCI Mountain Bike World Championships Short Track. Adrian Boaschi from Charlie Aldridge and Luca Martin.