The top American cyclo-cross racers will assemble at the USA Cycling National Championships in Louisville on Sunday, when defending champion Katie Compton will attempt to win a record 15th consecutive title. But there will be one rider on the start line who, as a junior seven years ago, predicted she would break Compton`s winning streak, and that is Ellen Noble. `It would be insane, totally crazy if I won,` Noble told Cyclingnews in a phone interview while she was travelling from Athens, Georgia, to Louisville. `Itīs funny, because when I was 16 years old I raced against Katie at my first Nationals, and I remember saying back then that if someone was going to break her title streak, it was going to be me.`ADVERTISEMENT She laughed and admitted how brazen that might have been to say at the time. `At 16 years old, that was the goal, and I think Katie was on her eighth or ninth consecutive title back then. But I was only 16, so what the hell did I know. I didn`t know anything about anything.` Noble might be the youngest of the three out-right favourites to win the elite women`s title in Louisville, alongside Compton and Kaitie Keough, but she exudes the confidence, determination, strength and skills of an up-and-coming elite champion.
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