Zer02 rider Rafa Álvarez de Lara has obtained the best result not ever achieved by a Spaniard in Four Cross Worlds: Fifth. The competition celebrated in Fort William (Scotland) was won by the North American Brian Lopes, with the Frenchman Romain Saladini silver and the Dutch Jurg Meijer bronze. With it Rafa improves the eighth he obtained two years ago in Livigno (Italy),

Rafa made a great championship that culminated with his victory in the B Final. "I Went out to ceiling, I took the head in the straight line and flat out to the end ". It was looking like that was going to be overcome in the same finish linel by the Czech Tomas Slavik, "but I saw her to come and I did not leave her to surprise me, because already I am an 'old dog' and was not going away to sucess the same that in Italy", when he still had out of the final to the being advanced by Greg Minaar in this last sigh.

Álvarez of Lara was from less to more. After finishing eighteenth in the qualyfy, in which nobody was remaining out, only it was a question of determining the 'crossings' for what it was not necessary to risk, he met the first series of sixteenth commode, "in that I went out slower, to monitoring the Swedish Robin Wallner, because I knew that he was not very strong, but I did not want to leave him to surprise me".

After qualifying second behind the German Johannes Fischbach, he overcame the eighth ones with a victory in the one that was staying out not more not less than the in force champion, the Czech Mickel Prokop. Then, the quarters, where also there was appearing another illustrious 'corpse', that of the Frenchman Cedric Gracia. "I knew that the key was in to start very loudly, in to catch the position from the beginning and to give everything up to the end".

In semi-finals, on the other hand, the same thing was not happening. "I took(caught) the position, but I lost it in a curve and already there was no way. It has been the worst series of all, because I have never had option". Brian Lopes and Roger Rinderknecht were who were going on to the A Final.

For the rest, Rafa was proving to be euphoric, "because I was going a lot of time without the things were going out for me. Though in race I have not remembered ever, now I think about the great disappointment that supposed for my and for all what happened in Rotorua, when I remained out of the competition for a silly fall. Now I know that I can aspire to everything and that if the luck does not give you the back, I can manage to a final and to being in the podium".

In th feminine final the North American Jill Kitner was taking the gold, ahead of the Dutch Anneke Berteen and the also American Melissa Buhl.

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