It was the expected duel of the two best mountain bike sprinters in the world, Titouan Perrin-Ganier from France and Germany's Simon Gegenheimer. Already in the World Cup, they have been dueling in the past ten months on all five continents, here still with the razor-thin lead for the German Gegenheimer. At the World Championships in Barcelona, it was the Frenchman who climbed the highest podium. Gegenheimer won the start, but according to his own statement he rode in the first curve too passively. In this, the Frenchman countered directly on the outer line and maintained his lead to the finish line. "I saw that Simon didn't take all the risk going into the turn and I knew I had to make the most of this one chance. Simon is a great athlete and very fair competitor, because in my overtaking maneuver he could have just cut my driving line, but even in a world championship race for the title, you don't see that from him. A big compliment to the silver medalist and winner of the overall World Cup," said the reigning world champion from France after the award ceremony.
Even these words could not counter Gegenheimer's initial disappointment: "I had it in my hands and should have gone into the turn with full risk despite winning the start. But these are intuitive decisions that you have to make during such a race, unfortunately I made the wrong ones. My preparation, the training, my bike, my racing team, everything was optimal and would have brought me to the second world championship title", said the runner-up in the subsequent press interview. And everything really did look like a mission to defend the title, Gegenheimer did sovereign in the heats, looked safe over the obstacles and won the time run between the Plaça d'España and the Parc Montjuïc in the center of the Spanish metropolis. In addition, his Mountain Bike Racing team had positioned Ricky Morales, a teammate, in the sprint final. In the end it was not enough for gold, but the silver medal and the bronze medal went to the mountain bike racing team in Aalen. And he will certainly be able to appreciate this silver medal after quite some time, the teammate from Puerto Rico this was much easier: "I was disappointed at first at the finish, we wanted to win and my job was to support Simon along the way. But at the beginning of this season I would never have believed I would be wearing a rainbow medal around my neck. My team has been great and told me all year year, Ricky, wait for Barcelona, your day will come. And it did come," said the man who won the first Mountain Bike World Championship medal to his Caribbean island.
Team captain Steffen Thum also points to a great season and the fact that the mountain bike racing team is set up for the long term.: "Seven World Cup victories, the overall World Cup in the men's race, second place in the women's race, World Cup bronze and World Cup silver, but more than the simple addition of the titles I'm pleased that we're not doing this on one back, but are doing it with the entire racing team. Simon as a constant champion, Marion in the ladies, but also our latino newcomers show what we are capable of as a racing team. With a share investment one would say extremely lucrative, short term as well as long term and still solidly secured with sufficient diversification," says Steffen Thum, summing up the world's most successful most successful UCI team of the sprint season.
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