Mountain Bike Rider

POWER & THE FURY

“I will get it fair and square, if I get disqualified that won’t be a problem.”

The 2018 season saw Tahnée inching closer to her much coveted overall title, but that all changed in Leogang. She went into race day positioned as the fastest qualifier and defending Leogang champion but was disqualified for going off course. “At the time I was quite resentful of how it all went, It was a real hard pill to swallow”. Getting so close to the overall win was hard for her to take, and the fear that it might never happen again kicked in but she used it as fuel as she set off into the 2019 season. “I trained so

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