WELCOME INFORMATION >  2014 UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championships

Dear Team Manager!

The UEC and the Bikeclub GIANT Stattegg are looking forward to welcome the best young riders and their supporters from all over Europe at the 4. UEC European Youth Mountainbike Championships in Graz/Stattegg, Austria.

Please notice some useful information:

• Download the list of registered teams and riders. Please check your data!

http://nyx.at/bike09/download.php?t=elements&r=7840
If you find any fault please send an e-mail to:  office@bike03.at

• Accreditation on Monday 11^th of August from 12.00 – 15.30

directly at the start-finish-area
Stattegg Lässerhof, Hofweg 3, A 8046 Stattegg, AUSTRIA
Dinner will be provided from 18.00 to 20.00!

• Team Time Trial as Prologue on Monday 11^th of August from 17.30 Stattegg/Dorfplatz

For fixing the starting order of the Team Relay on Tuesday!
All three riders of the team ride together one short lap, the slowest rider will count!
Start and finish on Stattegg/Dorfplatz.   

• The accreditations are provided in packages for all teams of the registered team manager.

Please check if the invoices for food and accommodation are paid.
NOTICE: Open amounts can only be paid cash.
Start packages will be given to teams only, which have fully paid their invoices!
One team manager accreditation per team and one feed zone pass per rider will be given.

• First team manager meeting on Monday 11^th of August at 16.00

Primary school Stattegg 300m from the start-finish-area
(Please follow the signs!)

• Two parking and team tent areas

directly at the start-finish-area. No reserved places! First come first served! No charges.
Download the plan of the competition area:
http://nyx.at/bike09/download.php?t=elements&r=7845

• Three caravan areas

300m before you reach the start-finish-area on the left and right side (caravan area 1 + 2)
and Caravan area 3 (500m before you reach the start-finish-area on the left side).
Water, toilets and electricity are provided. Shower in Sporthaus Stattegg 200-300m away.

Area 1:  The places are fully reserved! Please take the place, which is marked with your name!
Area 2:  The places are fully reserved but not individually marked.
Area 3:  There are a lot of places in area 3 > First come first served!

€ 25,- per caravan per day is the charge in all 3 areas.
For those who had not received a bill in advance: Please pay cash at the accreditation!

• Use of radiocommunication > permission is necessary

If you want to use walkie-talkies you have to register your frequency at the Austrian Telecommunication Authority.
Download the information in German: http://www.bike09.at/_uploads/_elements/5355_file1.pdf
Download the request in German: http://www.bike09.at/_uploads/_elements/5356_file1.pdf
Download the information in English: http://nyx.at/bike09/download.php?t=elements&r=5370

• NEW: Opening ceremony on Monday 11^th of August at 20.00.

For the parade and welcome of the teams and nations the presence of all teams is essential!
The riders will meet in the start-finish-area and will walk together to the main square of Stattegg, where the opening ceremony will take place.

> The promise of the riders and fair play rules!
We ask one girl or boy per nation to recite the motto of the championships within the opening ceremony in their own
native language and all riders to notice the fair play rules. Please find these documents attached in this e-mail.
We ask you to translate the promise into your own language. If your country has more than one native language please nominate one girl/boy per language!

To the team managers of the national teams: Please nominate these riders!
To the team managers of teams out of nations, which has no national teams in the ECH:
Please check it with the other teams of your country

• Invitation of the mayor of Stattegg

Before the opening ceremony the mayor of Stattegg, Karl Zimmermann invites all team managers to a welcome party in the municipal office at the Dorfplatz Stattegg. Begin at 18.00.

• Download the official timetable:

http://nyx.at/bike09/download.php?t=elements&r=7823

• NEW: Bike repair service directly at the start-finish area

High quality race service at day and overnight!

• NEW: High quality products of official partners to buy directly at the start-finish area > Special ECH prices!

XENOFIT sports nutrition
VREDESTEIN tyres and tubes
ELEVEN sport socks

• ATTENTION: Please check your insurance!

The first aid at the race will be provided and paid by the organizer.
BUT: For transportation to and therapy at the hospital riders will have to pay at their own.
We suggest to check existing insurances (license!) or to conclude a sufficient insurance!

• After Race Party on Friday 15^th of August 19.00

The riders will have their music and party indoor in Lässerhof.
The supporters and team managers outdoor with Styrian folk music and oldie hits.
from 18.00 there will be the possibility to have diner > Meat, Fish and Pasta!
> Please come! Let´s make party!

VERY URGENT!
The German Team Lexware U17 has lost its girl-rider!
This team is searching for a rider U17 girl! Is anybody able to help them?
If yes, please send an e-mail to: Mike.Zurnieden@rib-cosinus.com