{"id":157173,"date":"2025-09-20T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157173\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:17:07","slug":"goldstones-title-hopes-take-a-hit-after-tough-day-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157173\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldstone\u2019s title hopes take a hit after tough day in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson Goldstone\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/mtb\/goldstone-makes-it-four-straight-with-dominant-win-in-la-thuile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amazing run of wins<\/a> hit a bump Sunday in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian downhill star crashed mid-run and ended the day in 25th place, well off his usual podium pace. It was a dramatic turn for the reigning world champion, who has racked up four World Cup wins this season along with the rainbow jersey in Champery.<\/p>\n<p>Pierron takes the win, Bruni fifth<\/p>\n<p>While Goldstone was struggling, Amaury Pierron threw down a blazing run early in the finals and held onto the hot seat for the rest of the day. It was Pierron\u2019s first win of the 2025 season and a reminder of how dangerous the French rider can be on any given weekend. Henri Kiefer took the second spot and Lachlan Stevens-McNabb took third.<\/p>\n<p>Loic Bruni, the five-time world champion and Goldstone\u2019s main rival for the overall title, finished in fifth after a clean but conservative run. And he took the overall lead from Goldstone by 100 points.<\/p>\n<p>A season of highs and lows<\/p>\n<p>Goldstone has been the story of the 2025 World Cup season. After missing most of 2024 with injury, the 21-year-old came roaring back with four straight wins early this year, tying Aaron Gwin\u2019s record for most consecutive victories in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>He then added the world championship title in Champery, conquering the steepest, most technical track on the calendar to claim the rainbow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>But the last two rounds have been rough. A crash-filled race in Les Gets left him 16th. Now Lenzerheide has delivered another setback.<\/p>\n<p>Two stops left, overall title on the line<\/p>\n<p>With only two World Cup rounds remaining, Goldstone just lost the overall leader\u2019s jersey, but the gap is still small. Bruni\u2019s fifth-place was just enough to take the lead overall. Now the World Cup circus heads to North America, first to the freshly built Lake Placid track and then to Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Goldstone\u2019s amazing run of wins hit a bump Sunday in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Literally. The Canadian downhill star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1700,82],"class_list":["post-157173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mtb-features","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}