Mont Sainte Anne XCO World Cup Racing & Reflections

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<b>Mont Sainte Anne, steeped in history with 25 years of World Cup racing. The 2015 XCO event was a rider-favorite as always. Enjoy the racing and behind-the-scenes action, but also reflections of the MSA experience with top riders.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Years of MSA: Bart Brentjens</b> - Marius Maasewerd<br />
<b>25 Years of MSA: Bart Brentjens</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>After a long day of training, Katrin and Nathalie are filling up their daily ice bath to give their exhausted muscles some time to regenerate.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Years of MSA: Thomas Frischknecht</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>The track here in MSA has some tricky sections with very tight lines, especially coming into the section with shaky legs from the uphill.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Years at MSA: Emily Batty</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Suspension everywhere: front, rear and dropper. Mathias testing out the benefits of a lower saddle for the descents.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Yeas of MSA: José Antonio Hermida</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Lukas Flückiger arrived early in Canada and had time to get some laps on the track in the dry to get all his lines sorted. Here, you can see him explaining his lines to teammate Ralph Näf.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Years of MSA: Nino Schurter</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Yanick the mechanic taking care of the Scott bikes. With two top spots on the podium, he's doing everything right.</b> - Marius Maasewerd<br />
<b>25 Years of MSA: Manuel Fumic</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>The BMC mechanics hijacked a conference room in their hotel and transformed it into a Swiss precision workshop.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>25 Years at MSA: Ralph Näf</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>This year Pauline Ferrand Prevot is again switching back and forth between Road and MTB competitions with no problems putting her power down whether it's tarmac or dirt.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Elite Women's Start: 6 laps to go.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Jolanda Neff, again dominating the field from the first lap on. Already leading by over a minute after the first lap.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Catherine Pandrel fighting for second place on her home turf.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Pauline Ferrand Prevot's ponytail already showing her the way into the next corner.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>At the moment it's a 50/50 chance for Kathrin Stirnemann if her body is able to withstand a complete XC race. Eliminator distances are obviously no problem for the Swiss and World XCE Champion.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>It was the craziest race of her career, Jolanda said after the race. In the morning she had a blackout and was unconscious for half a minute. During the race she made mistakes every lap but even then she managed to win the race by over 30 seconds.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Women's Podium: 1: Jolanda Neff. 2: Catharine Pendrel. 3: Pauline Ferrand Prevot . 4: Emily Batty. 5: Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Jolanda taking the leader jersey to Windham.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Jolanda Neff: Another win in the bag with her third World Cup victory this season.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Good morning race day at Mont-Sainte-Anne. Lars Forster, the leader going into the race in the U23 Men's Category, warms up on the startloop.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Bad luck for Lars. Going into the race with injury and having a crash, flat tire and losing the leader's jersey.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Andreas Tiberi is surely no stranger to being up-front. In the last World Cup he was already racing top-10 and here he was leading the start loop and trying to stay in the top-5 for as long as he could. 10th for him at the end of the day.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Michiel Van Der Heijden had a bad start to the week with a crash on Thursday's training that put him out of the race. Luckily, nothing was broken but he is still in pain. Now Michiel is using cyborg technology to get him back on the bike quick.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>The Top-5 Express, storming the climb.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Mathias Flückiger already loosing air in his rear tire early on in the race. He tried to ride it safe as long as possible but the plan did not work out. But the top is already in near sight</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Julien Absalon pushing hard to stay on Nino's rear.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Nino Schurter showing some style while leading Julien.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Nino & Julian: Feed-zone pan.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Next time Mathias will change the tire quicker when loosing time.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Last lap, first climb. Nino waited for the best moment and attacked with pure power. Julien tried to counter the attack and the watts where flying through the air.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>First World Cup victory for Nino this year.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>And great fairplay.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Fantastic race for Ralph after announcing his retirement from active racing.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Cultures embrace.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>A great day of racing.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
<b>Nino wearing the leaders jersey. Next stop, Windham.</b> - Marius Maasewerd
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Mont Sainte Anne, steeped in history with 25 years of World Cup racing. The 2015 XCO event was a rider-favorite as always. Enjoy the racing and behind-the-scenes action, but also reflections of the MSA experience with top riders.​

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