I went to London well prepared and felt strong. In my opinion the Olympic track wasn’t ready for this Olympic test event, but eventual there was some good racing and a lot of fans showed up! Unfortunately I went out in the quarterfinal by a stupid mistake… Read the hole story below.
When I did my track walk before practice on Thursday I didn’t had an Olympic feeling like I expected. 4 years ago I had a very strong Olympic feeling during the test event in Beijing. This time I didn’t, because the track wasn’t finish the way it should be and during practice I couldn’t find the flow to ride the track like I want to. I felt bad and didn’t like the track very much.
Practice on Friday went way better, but I still couldn’t find the speed on the first straight. Somehow the starting hill felt weird and I didn’t like the first straight, because each jump had so many different lips. In time-trial I rode one of my worst laps ever, although my split time was okay. Because of the head wind on the third straight, I was just able to clear