Pump Track World Cup: With 10G on the bike into the steep curve
Alec Bob from the USA and Christa von Neuhaeusern from Switzerland won the rainbow jerseys at the UCI Pump Track World Championships in Austria.Europe's largest outdoor park, Area 47 in the Oetztal valley in Austria, was the venue for the 4th UCI Pump track World Championship on 18th November. In this young sport, participants from 21 countries completed a compact asphalt circuit full of waves and steep curves on BMX or mountain bikes. At speeds of up to 35 km/h, loads of up to 10G are reached for fractions of a second in the tight curves and falls are therefore often severe. After a crash,