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prep and forced a lot of the sandy topsoil to overflow onto the circuit. Therefore, America’s track actually harbored a striking resemblance to one of the many practice tracks that the European riders use for testing and training throughout Holland and Belgium, putting Team Netherlands in their comfort zone. There was a longstand- ing narrative involving Herlings and Tomac in the buildup to the 2018 Motocross des Nations, but that only seemed to add fuel to the fire for Herlings as well as his com- patriot, Coldenhoff. It’s been quite some time since such a dominant performance has taken place at the Motocross des Nations and it could be the first time that one particular country swept all three motos and still failed to win the event.
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