Five weeks off the bike for Olsen coming into the season

Coming into the 2020 MX2 World Championship, Thomas Kjer Olsen is one of the favourites for the title in what will be his last year racing the series as he’ll age out at the end of the season.

Olsen hasn’t had the ideal off-season as he picked up a wrist injury and was off the bike for five weeks. Whilst his MX2 title rivals have been putting in the laps and races to prepare for the season it’s going to be an uncertain start to the season for Olsen.

The Rockstar Husqvarna rider got back on the bike this week and will have a few days riding before Matterley Basin, it’s going to be interesting to see how an unprepared Olsen stacks up against the rest. A good result this weekend should give him plenty of confidence as he should only get better with more bike time.

“I honestly can say the last couple of years I have put everything into it. I’m going to take everything I learned in previous years and try and put it together. I would say the training and recovery (on what he needs to improve to make the next step). The season is so long it’s difficult to recover. You feel it at the end of the season, you are sluggish, you fly to China. You get sickness, I experienced it first hand, I got food poisoning in Turkey then you have to fly to China the next week. The off-season is so important to put in the hours, I have never been afraid to work hard”, Olsen told Tom Jacobs at the end of last year.

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