I am sure many of you watched the Sprint races in skiing yesterday in Oslo and I have to say that it was bloody exciting. Which is why I am very happy to see that SCF will start XCE or cross country elimination in MTB. Watching normal XC is only slightly less boring than watching LVG where riders only pass once. Most of the XC courses are so deep in the forest that you only see riders when they come back to the finish area. XCE should solve that problem a bit since the race time should be a few minutes and you can't cover that much ground in a few minutes.

MCK has had a sprint contest as part of our local Göteborg races so we have at least raced this way before. I remember I ended up in a heat with 3 Elit so I was not expecting to go on. But in the 'very B final' I remember being ahead of Kristina at the start but then fell in a nice grus corner and lost by a little bit. But it was really fun.

More sprint for the people is what I say...