During the penultimate round of the World Cup at Lenzerheide (report here), we saw another very decided overtaking of Nino Schurter against Mathias Flückiger.
Knowing the competitive nature of Nino Schurter, and any other great champion, Mathias' words will not have gone down just after the world championships in Val di Sole, where Mathias had to settle for 2nd place after a sprint finish with Nino.
“I felt good, physically I was the strongest and I set the pace throughout the race. But in the final I missed the last step to make a difference. Then came the sprint and Nino's extremely risky maneuver at the penultimate corner. From my point of view, overtaking was extremely risky and I don't think it's fair to do it this way to your teammate.
But it happened, I draw my own conclusions and I will handle such a race situation differently in the future. I can't wait for Friday and next Sunday where I'll stick to again Lenzerheide! "
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A Lenzerheide (Switzerland), penultimate stage of the World Cup, it was a beautiful 3-way fight between Victor Koretzky, Mathias Flückiger and Nino Schurter. The Frenchman Koretzky excelled, but here's what happened 500m from the finish.
From the attitude it seems that Nino was looking for such an attack from several curves: a nice slap in the face on a psychological level for Flückiger but you know, racing is also made of this.
