samVollering throws herself in the decend. All in. I can't look, she's not the best bike handler. In the chase group are 2 mountain bikers who should be way better in this stuff. They visual look slower. It's done. They're riding for 2nd place.
gemma lynn@cloudedjudge she's a perfectly fine bike handler but wow was that drone shot down the paterberg a more visceral spectator experience than i'm used to 😅
@ello you're right. Maybe it's just that drone. She looked super fast and aggressive. More so than anyone else I've seen in that descent. On the men's side, Pogi, VDP and Remco had to have felt some urgency at that descent (first time around) as well, but they didn't look as fast. But maybe it's just the drone shot of Vollering that made me afraid to look. That could also be why PFP and Puck seemed so slow in comparison, they had motorcycle cameras.
@cloudedjudge when they started using the drones in cyclocross coverage a couple seasons ago it always felt like whiplash going from steady-cam to drone to steady-cam, i think the impact on our perception of the pace is huge (and i freaking love it, to be clear 
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