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Davison has best championships yet

Oct 20, 2009
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<p>Specialized Racing's Lea Davison logged her best-ever world championship finish this weekend at the cross country mountain bike worlds in Saalfelden, Austria. </p><p>
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Davison, who was representing the United States, finished eighth in the six-lap elite women's cross country race aboard her Specialized S-Works Fate 29er. Her previous best finish was 10th at the Worlds last year in Champery, Switzerland. It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day out on the 4.5km course.</p><p>
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"I just kept moving up the entire race. I would lose a little bit on that technical descent every lap, but I was climbing well," said Davison. "I had some good luck on the last descent. There was kind of a pile-up at the bottom, and I just squeaked by and passed some more girls on the last climb."</p><p>
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Davison raced with a SRAM drivetrain including trigger shifters, 38/26 chainrings and an 11-36 cassette. She used a Specialized S-Works Ground Control 2.10 tire up front and a Fast Track 2.00 tire in the rear.</p><p>
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The day after the cross country, she participated in the first-ever eliminator world championship, where she qualified third and finished ninth.</p><p>
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In the men's eight-lap cross country race, recently crowned Olympic champion Jaroslav Kulhavy raced the best looking bike on the course. In celebration of his Olympic gold medal, Specialized made the Czech Republic rider a custom, gold-colored S-Works Specialized Epic 29er with 2013 Rockshox SID fomost a minute, I know I can ride to defend my jersey. My team is motivated to help me win here again," Martin said. "I would really like to win here again. I don't know why, but I really enjoy racing in China. I had a great</p><p>
time here last year. The roads are great, the weather is fine, the fans are cheering us on. You can really see that cycling is growing in China."</p><p>
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Wednesday's 162.5km third stage traces the same climbs from Tuesday, but in the opposite direction, before climbing the third-category hill to the Badaling summit. With the ramparts of the Great Wall of China straddling the same finish line from the 2008 Olympic Games road race, the stage should deliver some fireworks.</p><p>
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Specialized's Rafal Majka (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) rode into the best young rider's jersey after finishing an impressive eighth in the stage in the front group at 46 seconds back.</p>

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