After a long travel and a jet lag from Australia I knew that the World Cup in Champerey in Switzerland would be hard for me. My legs where swollen and heavy during most of the week, Claire did her best though to make the recovery faster. And she do have magic hands..

To almost every race I come with heavy legs and she turn them to a podium finish! She does a great work and I don`t know what the team should have done without her. Giving credit to Claire I have to mention that I could not get my results without the mechanics either. My S-Works Era is always in tip-top shape and they are working 24/7 to satisfy me, Susi, Todd and Burry!!

I had a nice week in Champerey, beautiful weather and place in the middle of nowhere in Switzerland. It was good to feel a little bit of summer again after cold weather in both Canada and Australia.

On my usual warm-up on the rollers before the race I felt that my legs still was heavy, but wearing my new overall World cup leaders-jersey, I was keeping my focus on giving it all. And so I did, but a crash early in the race pulled me back and I had to work really hard to get into the race again. Lap after lap my legs felt better as well, so I was able to finish in 3rd position, which I`m happy about 7 days after the World championship. I lost the overall leaders jersey to Lisi Osl thought but I promise to do my best on Saturday, at the World Cup final, to get it back and taket he win overall for 2009.

Now she has the pressure on her shoulders infront of her homecrowd in Schladming, Austria.

Big smile from Austria