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Yannick Michiels, Daniel Hubmann, Kris Jones and Martin Hubmann were all only control away from beating the eventual winner Jonas Leandersson. A sprint is however all about keeping concentration from start to finish. The World Championships Sprint in Forres offered courses with few complex routechoice legs – the main challenge…
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was to navigate safely through the narrow alleys of the small Scottish town – and to avoid doing any mistakes on the relatively easy legs. Compared to what many athletes had prepared themselves for – a complex sprint with artificial boundaries producing interesting routechoices – this sprint must be said to be quite uninteresting with very small time differences between the different alternatives. Therefore we also got a very tight sprint with small timegaps. The man who mastered this best was double European Champion sprint Jonas Leandersson (Sweden, photo below). Yannick Michiels (Belgium) had a clear lead and was seemingly on…

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