Jugend EM >> die Tage davor

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day till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..even the world famous Statteggian Zebras can´t hide their nervousness any longer..

..special tasks require special solutions..

...the jump-width-measurement is installed..

..the RüHaBe Höllbach is ready to rumble..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..nearly everyone is here already..
..training.. ..posing.. ..celebrating..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..welcome, servus, grüezi, kαλώς ήλθατε, benvenuti, velkommen, bienvenue, vitajte, dobrodošli, bine ati venit, witamy, välkommen, beinvegni, bruĥim ha-ba`im, welkom, griesst enk, herzlich willkommen, üdvözöljük, fàilte, tervetuloa, dobro dosli, vítejte, tere tulemast,... ..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..the best and worlds most famous two-wheeler-artists are coming to town..
..Friday to Sunday!.. .. Friday to Sunday???..

Marc Marquez am Red Bull Ring in Spielberg
Â© ALBERTO LESSMANN/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

..no, the best two-wheeler-artists are coming to town next week!-)..

1
week till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..a week to go..
..they are yet burning the kinetic code into the gravel path..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..flower power in the Noon hour..

.."WOODn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long!".. ..till the JEM17 starts..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..11 days to go and something new to show..

..the leader tricots 2017..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..two weeks and a day.. ..you can´t hide your flurry any longer..

..spending your time watchin European Championships..
..congrats to all the winners and uninjured of Darfo Boario Terme..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..men can no longer save the (Austrian- (Football-)) World..
..hopefully women can.. ..together..

SN/GEPA PICTURES

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..i feel a great disturbance in the Force underfoot..

by annsiebner

..the temperatures in Stattegg have been falling under 30 degrees Celcius.. .. winter´s coming..

..no, it´s not winter.. ..Jürgen is just back again..
..as well as my whole office-team.. ..remorseless as ever..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..bees and bumblebees and rumblebumblebees and fake-bees and..
..they are doing their job now.. ..you can hear them hum: "Don´t pummel me, i´m a feisty bee!"..

..what we should not forget is, that the flowers are doing their job well, too.. ..even less imperilling..

..hypnotizing beauty..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..suddenly a styrian wedding is beeing celebrated on Dorfplatz..

..and the (Austr-) Aliens again have their fingers in the pie..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..you witness the most spectacular event this week in Stattegg..

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weeks till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..extreme hustle and bustle on Dorfplatz..

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month till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..a month to go..

..and coffee, in all variations, is still the only helper in office..

33
days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..the alien invasion is still going on..
..but an UFO seems to be not longer that, what it has been in the late fifties..

..and the Highway 55 DORFPLATZ 4 is the new AREA 51...

..but the Aliens are more terrifying than ever..
..nice greetings from HR Giger..

..by the way, we are looking forward to a new photographer..
..as you may already have guessed, the last one did not survive this face-to-face encounter..
..please send curricula vitae to office@bike03.at..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..unfortunately MAX didn´t come very far yesterday..
..but that couldn´t stop the Dutch euphoria..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..I ´ve got a new co-operator.. ..nice guy.. ..extremely cool.. ..tremendous intrinsic values..

..the rest of Austria is on holiday.. ..the whole public life ist standing still..

..even the Formula 1 fans at Spielberg had to be imported..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..on our JEM-facebook account, once a nordic friend wrote, that he could not understand our German/Austrish postings..
..but German/Austrish is not that difficult to understand..
..so here are a few vocabularies, that everyone in our 21 participant-countries should be able to interprete..

Yes! (no, no = double negation)

Yes! (IÂ´m the best!)

No! (IÂ´m the worst!)

No! (Do not! ItÂ´s too loud!)

No! (Do not! (trainer is angry))

No! (Do not! Take your camera and put it...!)

..and now a very difficult one..

..means: Feed me! (but beware!: Do not feed!!!)..
..transformation into GREMLINS seems to be possible..

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days till the 7th UEC European Youth MTB Championships 2017 in Graz/Stattegg..

..looking back to the prologue of the Tour d´Autriche last Sunday..
..the target "Le Schloßberg" - a nearly unscalable rock..
..Little Alp d´Huez in the centre of Graz..