Yesterday we had the last Tuesday evening meeting in Zürich 2008. Like the week before, the weather wasn’t very cosy with temperatures below 10 degrees. Still labouring with a little cold I only competed in the Keirin event - but I won both nonetheless in the preliminary and the finals. In order to avoid all hassles and infights I took the front right from the start and managed to control the field from the front. The Japanese call this tactic ‘Senko’.
It’s a shame I only managed to compete in one Keirin at the Offene Rennbahn this year - It was a lot of fun! =)

(Picture by Hansjörg Sahli)

Despite having a cold and some minor problems with my new bike I was having a great time in Dudenhofen last week. The racing was awesome and it went better than I expected.

I lost only 0.3 seconds to Vice Olympic Champion Jason Kenny in the 250m flying lap time trial and forced Ross Edgar into a photo finish at our match up.

In the Keirin the brits did their usual tactics - taking the spot behind the derny right from the start. With 3 laps to go I passed by the rest and tried to be in the front as soon as the derny leaves. But of course Ross and Jason went full also and forced me to go the long way around. I don’t remember the last time my legs burnt so badly!

With about one lap to go I had to give in and settle back into the pack again. Well, at least I tried!

Roger Klenk sent me some nice pictures for you guys to enjoy! Plus some snapshots by my lovely girlfriend.

Close Finish

Congratulations to the winner.

The brits jump right after the derny!

Keirin action

Good picture of the british sprint bikes

Jason Kenny gave it all

I’ll be competing at the traditional Sprinter-Meeting in Dudenhofen this Friday. Invited are some of the best track sprinters in the world - I can’t wait to measure myself up tho those truly heavy hitters! The following article is directly pulled from morgenweb.de:

Dudenhofen: Britischer Olympiasieger beim Sprintermeeting

Dudenhofen/Pfalz. Ein erlesenes Fahrerfeld wird am Freitag (19.30 Uhr) in Dudenhofen beim 15. Radsport-Sprintermeeting zum 100jährigen Bestehen des RV 08 Dudenhofen auf der schnellen 250-Meter-Zementbahn starten. Von den britischen Olympia-Sprintern wird Jason Kenny dabei sein, der in Peking Gold im Teamsprint und Silber im Sprint gewann. Der zweite Engländer, Edgar Ross, holte in Peking Silber im Keirin. Beide Fahrer werden seit Jahren von dem Dudenhofener Jan van Eijden als Techniktrainer betreut. Beim Keirin-Wettbewerb trifft der Olympiafünfte Carsten Bergemann unter anderem auf Lokalmatador Benjamin Wittmann, den Schweizer Fabian Keiser und die beiden BDR-Kadersprinter Daniel Rackwitz und Georg Fischer (Schwerin). Zu einem weiteren Höhepunkt wird das internationale Steherrennen werden. Dabei wird Europameister Timo Scholz (Leipzig) auf Olympiasieger Stefan Steinweg (Böhl-Iggelheim) treffen, der mit diesem Rennen seine Bahnkarriere beenden wird. Ebenfalls am Start ist der deutsche Spitzenfahrer Mario Vonhof (Schwabach). (dpa)