Mountain Bike Cross Country (XCO) European Championships held in Olympiapark Munich

After a relax once I was back, I was checking stuff online and saw that it was the Men's Mountain Bike Cross Country European Championships on at 5pm in Olympiapark.

The Munich 2022 European Championships had been on all week, which we had seen them setting up for, on the ride we did, on the 1st day I was in Germany. A lot of the events were paid entry, but the MTB is like marathon running and various other sports where you can just go and watch on the course.

Felt a bit bad just getting back to the flat and then just saying to Colin & Lizelle, "cheers I'm going out". They were fine that I went though as they were still working, was a quick bus or tram ride and I got myself to Olympiapark where it was being held. Weather was still a bit iffy but I went prepared. It was really good to watch. Took loads of photos and videos of some of the action. Was cool to see the MTB stars, I watch on TV, race in person.

Free RedBull, kept the can to get my pfand

Celeb selfie with Bart Brentjens who won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an event.

Race

Race

Race

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Race

Race

Race with BMW Headquarters in background

Race

Race

Race

Race

Saturday was the Women's event so we all went to watch that. Was equally as good.

Race

Race

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Race - pit area

Race

Race

Big bench with Me & Colin

After the races were over we headed to a beer garden for ... doh - beer

Augustiner-Bräu

Me & Lizelle at Augustiner-Bräu

Augustiner-Bräu

Augustiner-Bräu pretenting to be posh

Augustiner-Bräu

After some lekker beer and a snack we headed home for dinner.

Broken glass on a bridge

Yummy ribs with veg & garlic roll