Absalon and Neff among favorites for World Cup dress rehearsal

Led by two-time Olympic champion Julien Absalon (BMC Racing Team) and three-time Olympic medalist Sabine Spitz (Sabine Spitz Haibike), world-class fields are expected to contest the second round of the BMC Racing Cup in Tesserete on April 5 and 6. This race event near Lugano in Switzerland is a final test right before next weekend's UCI Mountain Bike World Cup opener in South Africa for many - not least for Swiss hopefuls Mathias Flückiger and Jolanda Neff.