Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun - 'Kaprun agency a lot to me and has consistently done so' / Belgian abundance bike pro Roel Paulissen is analytic advanced to 'Bike Infection' on 8th July

Belgian abundance bike pro Roel Paulissen.Store this angel in big sizeThere are abounding athletes who, during their lives as sportsmen, accept been luckier than Roel Paulissen: the abundance biker from the Belgian boondocks of Hasselt is generally not just angry adjoin his opponents on the course, but aswell mainly adjoin himself. Falls and crashes, a austere duke injury, and acute abdomen problems are just some of the abrogating highlights of his contempo past. With a wink, Paulissen calls himself a 'natural complete walking adversity area'.

Despite his problems, he has never absent the aftertaste for his sport: Paulissen intends to advance for achievement afresh in the aboriginal 'Bike Infection' in the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See-Kaprun'. 'This is a different aggregate of cross-country and a alley race. I am analytic advanced to it and I am traveling to do my actual best', he says, assuming some angry spirit. The 'starting gun' for the big anniversary is accepting accursed with a acceptable affair in Salzburger Platz in Kaprun on 7th July. The actual next day Paulissen is traveling to hit the chase course.

Despite the abounding injuries that accept generally acquired him problems, the allowance are in his favour – as a glance at his antecedent career shows: for abounding years the thirty-year-old pro has been counted a allotment of the aristocratic of the abundance biking scene. He is at home on all the cross-country courses of this apple - wherever you go, experts apperceive his name. The amateur from 'Giant Racing Team' confused into the accent of accessible absorption in the year 2004 if he won fourth abode in the Athens Olympics.

However, the seven-time Belgian best will accommodated with able antagonism in the 'Bike Infection' in Kaprun: others, like the Austrian cross-country best of 2004, Christoph Soukup, and the Dutch gold champ Bart Bertjens, are aswell anxious for victory. 'My aggregation acquaintance Bart is absolutely one of my arch competitors. But of course, athletes like Soukop are aswell actual dangerous.'

Only afresh Paulissen showed in the acclaimed 'Glocknerkönig' chase on Austria's accomplished abundance that he have to be counted in for achievement in the 'Bike Infection': he took additional abode a allotment of 2100 starters in a antagonism time of just 1:13:47 hours there. And endure years after-effects aswell accord acceleration to optimism: in 2005 Paulissen headed the UCI apple rankings of the a lot of acknowledged abundance bikers with the greatest of ease.

He now intends to accomplish agnate success in Kaprun. But the chase advance through the old boondocks centre has its difficulties: 'After the ascend you accept to alight down a flight of stairs, again cantankerous some timberline trunks, accomplish a bifold jump and cantankerous a basin of water. You charge to hit this access just right, ride through actual alluringly and softly.' Paulissen thinks that this is the alone way to succeed. And admitting these catchy spots, he is assertive that he will accomplishment a allotment of the aboriginal ranks: 'I absolutely like the accepted abstraction and I anticipate I will administer affably in Kaprun. '

You can acquisition added advice on the 'Bike Infection' at www.mountainbike-kaprun.com on the Internet.

General Information:
With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World.

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