Pre-race talk was of Bruni's countryman

Remi Thirion

hitting some crazy lines for a second World Cup win and he did not disappoint. However, Australia's Fearon, who'd previously never finished higher than ninth in his relatively short career, put in a storming run to take the lead and the hot seat. This left one man,

, with it all to do. Just how much that would turn out to be will go down in downhill mountain biking history.