The Cross Cup was a show organized Belgian broadcaster VIER, for the final show of the Superprestige. I've just seen the three contests of it on the net.
8 crossers were guests: Lars Van der Haar, Tom Meeusen, Sven Nys, Rob Peeters, Niels Albert, Kevin Pauwels, Klaas Vantornout and Wout Van Aert.
At first there was a presentation of the three crosses they had to do (but not with their usual equipment of course)
1. A remote controlled car (Lars saying : "hey ! That's my size !"
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2. A tricycle (but it was a sort of biathlon)
3. A car
They then draw lot to see how the teams would look like:
Lars Van der Haar, Tom Meeusen : Orange (lot can sometimes be ironic)
Sven Nys, Rob Peeters : Red
Niels Albert, Kevin Pauwels : Yellow
Klaas Vantornout and Wout Van Aert : Blue
"Klaas, who do you think are the favourite?" "Us, I guess."
Albert says something like: "We won't talk too much but we will act." (referring to his teammate)
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cnt/dmf20140215_00981379So the first contest: Remote controlled car ! Peeters already coming a cropper before the start, everybody laughing their head off ! Sven says: 'Zonder vlo is dat toch niet wat het geweest is!' (I don't know what it means; help !)
Announcer: "Wout, beware of a false start!" (referring to his Belgian Nats)
You could see Van der Haar's car crashing and Meeusen casually walking to put it back on track. Lars: "Run Meeusen, run!" (in the infinitive form in Dutch)
Albert sending his car in no man's land there: "Kevin, my car !"
Finally the Orange team won with a car that lost one wheel. Lars: "if the equipment crosses the line, it's okay, isn't it?" "Nys beaten!"
Nys questioned the result because in his opinion the Orange car went back and forth across the line or something. And then: "Dirty Hollanders!"
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The cross biathlon. Other win for Orange Team. Nys: "He [Rob] shot well, but they shot a split second faster. I'm pockmarked."
So actually Albert is a lefty, I didn't know.
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Car racing.
First semi-final: Orange vs Yellow : Lars was the better of Kevin but when Tom took his turn he had trouble to start and Albert started like a bomb (his best start of the whole season, lol). However his engine blew up. "Come on man, that's not fair!"
2nd semi: Nys spectacularly span round and was lucky that Klaas has good reflexes. Easy win for the Red.
Red won the final but in the GC they were tied 14-14 so they had to race one lap more ITT. It was Meeusen against Peeters. Meeusen did 42"07 and Peeters 42"32. Win for Orange "It's our glory moment" says Lars.
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Okay hard to understand everything for non-Dutch speakers, including and mostly me, but a joyful moment. Every year VIER does this sort of thing for the closing ceremony of the SP. A lot of fun !
