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WOC 2007 is over

My first WOC is finally over and I am back home. I spent very nice week in Kyiv together with the national team, unfortunately, mostly as a fan, due to not qualiyfing neither for sprint, nor for long finals. In the sprint I was far from qualifying and even if I had…
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a perfect race I wouldn’t reach Top 15 as my speed was also far from the best. The long distance qualification went much better and I did a clear race, but again, due to not so good shape and hard uphills I was done and almost had to walk into the finish. I finished in 17th spot 10 minutes behind the winner Philippe Adamski and missed final by mere 22 seconds. Analyzing my race afterwards I noticed two wrong route choices (to the 1st and 4th controls), were I lost around 2 minutes altogether and a place in the final.  They don’t look too bad, but…

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