Christoph Sauser's comments on The Offenburg World Cup

I did not feel so crispy fresh for the whole race. Probably I trained a little bit too hard this week. Not many hours, but very intensive intervals on Wednesday with motor pacing afterwards. I felt too good on that day, and probably burned myself a little. Anyway second is still very good, but my feeling was not as good as in Houffalize. Ok, the course was also totally different today. Every climb full gas, or thats how it felt to me. The downhillʼs were really fun with a few steep drops. There was a huge crowed here and they loved it. I did not love my job that much during the race. I was suffering form A-Z. The first laps I could hardly hold on and was always around 10th position. Luckily there was a flat section at the start/finish where I could always catch up again.

Absalon attacked in a long single trail from the front. At that point I was in 5th, but I guess I could not hold on anyway. Going into the second last lap I tried the same as him, and surprising I got away from Vogel, Schurter and Hermida. Not much though but just enough to make it safe all the way to the finish. I was looking forward to this moment so much!