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The Tenerife Island, the largest in the Archipelago of Canaries, is located 300 kilometers from the Moroccan coast.
Since then, it has always been the place to meet the amateurs of sailing sports.
But since then, the wind and the sea are no longer the only assets of this tormented site.
The Caravan of the 1st Tenerife Superbike has indeed sent the number of trails that have cremated this mountainous island,
culminating at 3,710 meters, through the Idae mountain.
There are almost no races here. This is a historical knowledge of the Tenerife.
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think it starts today with the start of the stage and then after it's really the adventure.
Four stages totaling 170 kilometers of impressive unevenness,
waiting for the 60th race to be recorded in this 1991 edition, the first of the genre.
While some are in no hurry to attack the first white mountains,
others, barely leaving, already pay their lack of training.
It hurts from the leg.
It was the first time you came.
Yes, it was the first time I went to the church.
Do you like it?
I'm tired.
So how is it going?
I'm completely exhausted.
I wasn't able to give an image of myself.
It's really hard.
It's harder than expected.
Especially since it's the first day.
We have hope.
It's hard, we saw it there to compensate.
Not taking a bike or a bike is enough.
I thought it was the right thing to do.
It's dancing, it's in the camera.
I did a special.
I did a special.
35.
35, 26.
35.
From Geneva, a team of 18 people.
As you said, a nutritionist.
You are all Bible, masters.
A great team of masters since we need them.
People for mechanics.
So it's a lot of people.
In addition, if available on the island,
we had to take more than 10 vehicles
to be able to assume everything we needed.
The luggage, the type of frame.
We have almost 60 competitors at the start.
Since it can still be done, we arrive on site
with the presence of a German and two Spanish.
We have to remember that in this race,
we have two juniors of 15 years,
and we have veterans who have left
between 60, 61 and 62 years for the oldest.
It's better, I'm better here
than earlier in the descent to Plavante.
Anyway, the massage is the best moment
of the race.
If there is no massage,
I won't even have my bike.
The young guys, above all,
don't ask if they like to do it in the hotel
and that there will be a little part of it.
On the evening of the first stage,
a bivouac is planned at the foot of the Montaïde.
An intermittent rain and a windfall
will decide otherwise.
In front of the damaged elements,
the participants have no other choice
than to go to the hotel,
except for a few irreducible ones
who prefer camping under the rain
in the comfort of a four-star hotel.
We will still organize a race
because from here, the weather is great.
We will do it in the region of Villaflor,
and it's not exactly between eight.
The next day, the bad weather
forces the organizers to modify
at the foot of the bivouac
the second stage of the race.
But if this rain is not on the date,
the bivouac, as for him,
transforms this stage into
a hide-and-seek part.
When it rains like that,
I'd rather dry myself.
The Tenerife Superbike
is an open competition
to all and all.
Professional and amateur,
men and women,
young and less young,
face the same path
and according to the same rules.
There are three categories.
The category that comes first,
and the category that comes second,
the category that comes second,
the category that comes first,
the category that comes first,
the category that comes first,
the category of those who
are given a personal challenge.
And then the category of those
who are given a challenge
between friends who come in group
to see what they can do,
We are the only Swiss who organized this kind of sports rally, with, in addition to this caravan of real professionals, as we have seen Peraquis, Norris, who is a Italian champion, and amateurs who are totally tourist.
Tourism is a sport, and there is still an effort to be made, and it is true that it is a mix of things that give a certain value to the race.
It may be the charm of the race, i.e. the front fork and then the tourists.
I'm going to play football, I'm going to play football, and then I'm going to play football.
I'm going to play football, and then I'm going to play football.
I'm going to play football, and then I'm going to play football.
At the end of the first two stages, the Swiss Philippe Peraquis, favorite of the test, is left away by the Italian Mario Norris, losing practically all his chances of victory.
Well, let's say, I think Mario is a little over a month old, so I don't think I can recover as late as I have already learned, but I will try to win a stage if I can.
Mario Norris, out of his advance and supported by a very solid Italian team, is extremely confident.
Third at the intermediate level, the Genouva Didi and Jakar seem, for the moment, to be satisfied with the smallest step in the podium.
For the moment, it's going well, we have to have it today, but there is a long step that will come to an end, so it should convince me.
I think that if everything goes well, I will be able to try to ensure my third place.
And then, here, it's a fantastic landscape, anyway, it's a pleasure, that's what counts.
Juniors and veterans, all these fans of the small train of the mountains, are animated from the same desire,
escape asphalt and get sucked into the wild nature.
They don't have the same way of thinking as the simple people who stay close to the city, I would say.
The people who go out of the anti-battles are anyway people with a different mentality.
I think you have to be well in your head, because we often want to put the bike on the other side of the foot.
The Adepts of the VTT are, for the most part, the old amateurs of road bikes, the sound of the bike, the noise and the constraints of the circulation.
All the riders who had the bike on the road, are now on the mountain bike.
And also the people who had the motorbike, the motocross, are now on the mountain bike,
also because the noise in the forest was affected, so we had to do something else.
In fact, the mountain bike, I think, was ideal as a bike to maintain the clean nature and also the physical.
The nature is super beautiful, that's why I stopped a little bit on the other side of the course, because I had died of bad luck.
And the people are less conscious.
It's hard, but it's beautiful.
It's so beautiful on the road, rather than on the roads, where there are trucks and cars.
Is this an ecological aspect that is interesting?
It's nothing like that, it's everywhere.
Freedom, then?
Rather.
The fresh air, the landscape, I think you have to be happy about that, but it's not bad.
You see, in life, there are moments when you have this minimum satisfaction.
In the course of these third steps, between soleil and brouillard, the battle is going on in the head of the race.
Mario Norris, in full form, has again let go of his pursuers.
Billy and Jakar, as for him, managed to get away from the second place in the overall ranking,
can be stimulated.
In the course of these third steps, between soleil and brouillard, the battle is going on in the head of the race.
Billy and Jakar, as for him, managed to get away from the second place in the overall ranking, can be stimulated.
It's especially the pleasure of driving in conditions like that.
It's a terrain that I really appreciate, mountains, descents.
And then on the other side, it's really just fantastic pleasure.
Oh my God.
I'm happy.
The first trip of killing for food, I think.
Oh my God, the story.
But it's beautiful, it's beautiful.
I tried to catch up with Thierry, but I didn't succeed.
That's it. Hard, hard.
I'm not going to die.
I'm not going to make a lot of money.
I'm going to make a lot of money.
The few women involved in the test greatly appreciate being able to measure themselves to their male colleagues.
It's very stimulating for everyone.
In any case, for me, it's good to be with men.
But it's true that women find it in general too hard.
That's why there are so few.
It's a shame, but we try to promote it in our own way.
The competition is perfect.
I think they are only happy with the variety of the terrain.
And especially today, this magnificent stage, we finished at 2,200 meters at the foot of the Tidey.
So we can't dream better.
It's a nice journey.
There is nothing.
There is a little bit of everything.
There is the technique and the descent to climb.
There are slippery paths.
There is everything we want.
Oh, now I want to go down.
As long as to do.
But hey, you have to climb well to be able to go down.
As long as it's windy, as long as it jumps from one rock to the other, it's all that's more beautiful.
After the rigors and the stress of the competition,
the competition is a little bit of tourism through the National Park,
an old volcanic cone of 75 km of perimeter
which surrounds the snow peak of the Tidey.
In Europe, the practice of VTT is linked to the need for space and tranquility.
Unlike in the United States, where it is a discipline of agility and speed,
practiced of course by tourists, but also by real barbers.
This bike in Italy, I think that in all Europe,
it arrived much later than in America.
For example, in America, there are races now,
in Europe there are no examples, there are no parallels,
there are descents in the houses,
in Europe there are very few descents.
Practiced in a difficult terrain,
VTT can be revealed in a sport at risk,
as good for the best than for the least trained.
I fell twice.
The second one, very heavily on the corner of the girl,
which caused me a lot of trouble,
but eventually she got a scar on the bone,
plus a crack on my right leg,
because my foot was stuck in the retractable area.
The VTT produces a fairly rich pathology,
first of all, and we saw yesterday's proof,
a crowd of little bubbles, plebs, air bubbles and everything,
but of course we must be absolutely ready for the serious accident,
to see much more serious.
It's the first time that I'm really doing something with VTT.
I realize that in descents, it can be very dangerous.
I'm really looking forward to the super champions,
I'm looking forward to the way they pass us.
Yes, it can be dangerous,
because we're always on the side of the ravine,
we all disappear into the nature,
but we're always on the side of the ravine.
Good job, guys!
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Of course they always take a risk by having a sport,
in a sport, especially this one, on the field of traumatology,
but if they are well trained and if their team continues to surround a complete medical team,
I think that people can come in all security.
This last step does not leave any feedback to the competitors,
already approved by three days of effort in a splendid and tormented terrain.
After the snowy and slippery paths, they must indeed face the Baranco,
a deep gorge that can not be crossed but at foot.
Come on Marco!
How was this climb?
Very hard.
Yes?
All the feet will be four hundred meters like this on the sand.
How long have you spent to pass it?
I don't know.
I don't even know what to do anymore.
The mountains are beautiful.
It's really a pleasure.
We are not going to the end.
At the moment, we are on the road.
After that, we are on the road.
Come on!
You have my rhythm.
It's okay, you still hold the ball.
I have the time to admire the landscape.
Despite the many difficulties of the journey,
few competitors abandoned.
The almost total of the participants will pass the line of arrival,
not without a certain pride.
I don't know if I've ever ridden a bike like this.
Good!
Really?
Your first race?
No, but I don't know anything about riding a bike.
I brought everyone.
Everyone was able to do it.
Is it over?
Yes, it's over.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It's beautiful there.
You still have to train a little bit.
But let's say that you have to, above all, have the will.
And a little bit of endurance, the training with endurance.
We fight with all our white hair,
and then here are the others.
We see them at the start, and then we see them arrive.
Ladies and gentlemen, Chantal Dockour, Agnès Dockour,
and Corinne Schmit, who comes to our podium.
This first Tenerife Superbike was a success.
The organizers and their partners decided not to stay there.
I see a great opportunity to be able to involve many countries
because organizing it requires a certain connection.
It's not a very, very complicated thing.
There's just a little bit of education,
what the timers are, relative,
to create a country so far away, different from what we're here.
I mean, I've had a lot of pleasure in the last two years of my life,
but here it's really a great course too.
We will certainly maintain and make a second Tenerife Superbike.
It's a wonderful discovery.
Well, when you have the taste of nature,
well, you can only enjoy it.
I think they reinvent the bike.
They do something that aligns the love of nature
and the taste of effort, really.
And the camaraderie, of course.
