Name: Simon Qvortrup Thygesen Age: 18 Weight: 70 Height: 182 Racing since: 2005 Favorite course: Offenburg, Germany Biggest MTB experience: My first Danish championship title Daily motivation: Getting faster and to have fun riding my bike. Goals for 2009: To get on the podium at the Danish championship and overall at the Danish UCI cat. 3 Superliga. To do as good as possible in Houffalize (WC). To be honest I have no idea of how fast I am compared to the competition down there. Best results: 2 Danish Junior XC and 1 MX championships Philosophy. Find you limit and how to get past it. The team manager about Simon: Simon is one of the "young guns" of the Danish MTB scene. This year will be his first in the u-23/elite category. With a little bit of coaching from Klaus and Klaus I believe that Simon can reach the absolute top. Simon believes in him self and combined with the huge potential of his physics you really have to keep an eye on him.