[BIRDS CHIRPING]
SINA FREI: My name is Sina Frei.
I'm a professional mountain biker for Specialized Racing.
We are here at the fifth round of the UCI Mountain Bike World
Cup in Lenzerheide.
The last month was super special for me.
And it was super nice to get away
with three medals on all the big races.
And this is super motivating for me for the next races,
and to finish the season on a high.
ANNOUNCER 1: [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
SINA FREI: Yeah.
The racing here in Lenzerheide is
of course, super special in Switzerland,
in my home country.
And I guess there will be a lot of people, which are cheering.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
My race breakfast is always an oatmeal
with rice and with oats.
And I like, from Laura, these special berries
and some bananas and some nuts.
With Laura, she's a really nice teammate,
and we are spending a lot of time together.
And we have fun together.
And we are pushing each other.
And it's also positive.
And, yeah.
I can learn a lot from her.
And she can learn from me.
So that's a big bonus.
The team-- it's super nice to be back together.
It's always fun with them.
And I really like it, and I feel really good with all the people
around.
Yeah.
The surprise on Friday was super amazing.
I never was thinking that I will get a complete new bike
and a new outfit.
That was insane.
Yeah, it was so nice, and I really enjoyed it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
ANNOUNCER 2: Sina Frei, wearing the rainbow stripes
for this discipline.
So the short track is underway here
in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.
Sina Frei there with the rainbow stripes around her middle,
in fourth place at the moment.
There's another crash!
Oh, look at that.
There's Sina Frei in there as well.
SINA FREI: I struggled a little bit in the second lap,
because there was kind of a little crash,
and I was involved.
I had in the end the first world start.
That was positive.
It was a solid performance, and I'm happy with it.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
The nutrition is super important, like,
to feed our body.
It's our machine.
We are super lucky at Specialized
that we have a food truck.
And then the food is always on time.
And we can eat what we need.
We're doing the suspension testing,
and now we have some data.
And Jerome is uploading them to the computer.
And then Marcel will analyze them.
JEROME: It goes from last weekend from Baldessari
to here.
The course is real different.
So we are-- a couple adaptation we will do.
So she is back now for the run three--
the last run she will do.
And after that we should have pretty much a good idea of what
set up we need to race for Sunday.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
SINA FREI: I do a pre-race stretching.
Yeah.
I like to do it, because I can feel my body.
And I like the feeling of the stretching.
And so I'm getting ready for race today.
And the track is super special, because there
is no long downhill.
It's super exhausting.
And you always have to be focused, and pedal,
and work with your whole body like on a pump track.
To race in front of my home crowd--
that will be super special.
I'm super excited about it.
Let's race!
ANNOUNCER 2: And we are underway then in Switzerland.
And it is Jolanda Neff in the red with a determined start.
[CROWD CHEERING]
SINA FREI: It was so nice to race
with so many people who were cheering for me.
And that gave me a lot of extra motivation.
ANNOUNCER 2: Sina Frei comes in just short in third place,
the top Swiss rider today.
ANNOUNCER 3: Sina Frei over the big rock, one of the most
technical parts of the course.
ANNOUNCER 2: Oh, no way!
ANNOUNCER 3: Flat tire for Frei.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ANNOUNCER 2: And she was looking at her best
ever World Cup finish.
Well, I think that's just gone out the window.
ANNOUNCER 3: That's the number three.
ANNOUNCER 2: Oh, and shaking her head.
ANNOUNCER 3: now on three.
ANNOUNCER 1: The ball gets thrown.
There's nothing Sina Frei can do but stand there now.
It's a rear wheel.
It takes a lot longer than front--
SINA FREI: It was in the last lap and like two K's to go.
And I was lucky that Peter did a really fast wheel change,
and I could still manage to come away with a fifth place.
But after the finish, I was of course, super sad about it,
because otherwise, maybe it would be my best World
Cup result so far.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Now I can smile again.
But I'm a little bit disappointed about the results.
But the atmosphere and the people there are really wild.
And it was really loud.
It was amazing to race in home crowd.
Yeah.
It's super nice that so many people are so happy for me
and are cheering for me.
And it was an insane atmosphere.
It was really-- the people were running on the side with me.
And this gave me a lot of extra power.
And, yeah.
I really wanted to show my very best today.
In the end it was a good performance but, yeah.
PA: Specialized Factory Racing!
SINA FREI: Today's highlight was, of course,
to stay on the podium with the whole team.
And we still managed that we are still leading
their overall classification.
And so let's go for Snowshoe.
And hopefully, we can defend our overall.
My weekend here in Lenzerheide was super nice.
The atmosphere was amazing.
The team did a really good job.
And we had a lot of fun.
And overall, it was a super fun weekend.