Well, yes I have the feeling i'm getting a bit slower on the bike, but I'm still taking some big risks when riding, bike, cars or what ever...I have the feeling that it is not necessarily age that changes things, but perhaps more that I now have a child...I 'm not crazy about partying too much, but when I decide to do one and have fun, I feel pretty dead afterwards…
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NicolasVouilloz

Hi, it was not always easy… What I can say, is it was easier for me for a World Championship, than for a WCup race! World cup races, I was sometimes afraid to lose them; however, with a World Championship, I just want to win it… Makes all the difference! But to help, I visualized the track, the line, and focussed all my attention, and did it during the run. I always tried to do a fast and clean run. Don't think too much about the other riders, just focus on you and try to give YOUR best!

Competing again, I think about it many times, and almost did it, but I think now it's too late! I'm getting older, and have been away from racing (not like Steve Peat). It is still very difficult for me to leave the World Cup scene without being a contender/winner and accept a result of 10th place or more. Meaning, when I race even if it is for fun, it is very dificult to just do that — race for fun — as I am competitive and would find it very hard to be happy coming in 10th place or even worse!
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NicolasVouilloz

Hi, I stop DH racing because it become more and more difficult to keep the same motivation as in the past. I had the feeling to start to loose some races just because I was not so focussed, or didn't really want the win… And it scared me because I was a winner..:-) My last challenge was to get a 10th World champ title, and when I achieved it, I had a feeling that I had accomplished what I had to do, and rally car called me (in my head)
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NicolasVouilloz

Training was a combination of XC bike, road bike, gym, moto bike, dh, bmx, and never excess 20h/week, in general around 15h.
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NicolasVouilloz

блин, почему-ж так далеко?((
это называется возбудим и не дадим!)
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Green-Art

Hi, yes it has ben crazy for me to race with such amazing driver s like Gronholm, Solberg and Loeb! It's happenned in 04 and 05 for my first WRC participations! It was crazy because and I had only competed in rally with a small 206 cup in 03, with max 10 rally s in my whole life!!! But to go into rally, I practice on gravel road with a small 106 when I was still racing MTB, and on snow during winter in the famous «col de Turini»…

I always love driving cars, but I was too focus in mountain bike to take part at some competition! So I wait after my last World champ title in 02 to try the peugeot cup, won it and get the opportunity to start a second carreer in rally.

In 2007, I was testing bikes for Lapierre, and thought I'd race for fun and just to feel one more time how was it to take a WCup start, and raced in Champéry! It was super cool feeling! But after a 5 years stop and still competing rally car, it was not easy to have the right speed and the good shape! Shape is so specific in dh, that after 1 minute, I was dead!!! Gone were the times when I used to finish my race faster than at the start…

To answer the question if I had a psychologist help, I will answer yes, even if I never went to see a real specialist! But, all around me, my father, trainer, doctor, girl friend were always there to help me in some difficult moments!
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NicolasVouilloz

обалдеть! какое хорошее видео, съемка на уровне! да и сами соревнования позитивно проведены =)
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inchest

О, хорошо Сашка поработал с Отчетом=)
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SakenKagarov

А ведь для такого парка горы не нужны… Обидно и завидно.
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Moby

Я всё понял, это как «Мои ноги очень хорошо и dandy» :D

Сим нарекаю GoshaN'а Надмозгом!
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nepunk

ну там непонятно правда от чего они! Толи когда я керхером мыл байк и передержал на седле струю и там порвалось толи на трассе, когда падал=\
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Andrey

пару дней назад твитнул это видео, с текстом вроде «вот в KZ билайн спонсирует и велоивенты, нам бы так», на что они ответили, что открыты к предложениям. Орги ближайших сорев, поимейте ввиду ;)
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DenSmarty

Достаточно накосячить наладчику — и замечательно косячит. Видел следы работы криво написанной управляющей программы. Это было забавно :D Если не считать того, что во всех ларьках автозапчастей были бракованные рычаги из той партии.
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Gourry

Аминь, бро.
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mx2

Видели как личико у казацкой девочки загорело?))
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Delorian

Ваня неистово суров)))!
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victoria5000

оййй, Амурчик не упал?
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victoria5000

увидела этот ролик сразу, как только он появился в сети — очень понравилось! очень позитивное видео.
жаль только, что не сделали отчётик по мероприятию на твентисиксе.
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victoria5000

Вам дабстеп еще не надоел? Соглашусь, сам эвент мегакрутой, просто завидую!
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dudon