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Katerina Nash wins Cross Vegas again, to the delight of the bike industry fans. © Cyclocross Magazine
When did Nash know she had the win? Even with such a large gap, victory was never assured for the Czech racer. “There are so many times when things don’t go right at the end so I always hammer all the way to the finish and that’s where I celebrate.”
Nash’s win kept the title from the Americans yet again, after Dutch Sanne van Paassen’s win in 2012, and Canadian Lyne Bessettes victory in the first running of Cross Vegas.
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Davidson, Nash, and Pendrel form the international podium for CrossVegas 2013. © Cathy Fegan-Kim, Cyclocross Magazine
The Cannibal Feasts in Vegas
It seemed as though every racer knew there was one man to beat: the King of ’Cross, the Cannibal himself, Sven Nys. Nys himself? He was afraid of getting beaten by the heat. “Today I stayed all day in my hotel, because I was afraid of the heat, and I waited for the sun to go down,” Nys said of his pre-race prep.
“I’ve done three laps, and I felt okay, and I felt ready for my first race of the season,” Nys recalled. But all the time, since I started my cyclocross career, you get nervous for your first race. With the jet lag and everything around this race, I was also nervous. With this jersey, it’s not so easy.” The winningest cyclocross racer also gets nervous, and also is afraid.