{"id":92120,"date":"2015-04-26T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T15:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=92120"},"modified":"2015-04-26T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T19:24:31","slug":"gallery-naf-and-neff-win-the-tesserete-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/gallery-naf-and-neff-win-the-tesserete-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"[Gallery] N\u00e4f And Neff Win The Tesserete Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The XC Worldcup will start very late this year, giving the pros lots of time to test their shape in smaller races, like this one, held in Tesserete, Switzerland, the second stop of the BMC Cup 2015. The starter field was filled by big names, and the technical track became really challenging after the rain started falling on Saturday. World Champion Julien Absalon, Ralph N\u00e4f and Manuel Fumic were only some of the strong riders who raced today. The men got lucky, because the rain stopped falling half an hour before their start. This didn’t mean the track would dry up.<\/p>\n

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The women had to race under the rain, but Jolanda Neff had no problem to finish first ahead of Esther\u00a0S\u00fcss and\u00a0Sabine Spitz.<\/p>\n

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World champion\u00a0Kalentyeva\u00a0finished fourth.<\/p>\n

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Absalon had some technical problems already from the first lap: his Di2 rear wasn’t working properly, as the French champion says:<\/p>\n

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