Tim Johnson wins the 2009 Boulder Cup - join the interview.
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Interviewer: You and Jeremy together at the front separation that --
Tim Johnson: Yeah.
Interviewer: It's interesting because Jeremy said he's allowed only to speak one word to each other in the race and you know where everyone is watching and thinking like how are they going to sort this out.
Tim Johnson: Well, you know he's flying. I mean I was just saying that you know Jeremy, he wasn't excited about how he felt yesterday but today he just went out of the blocks and he was killing it and he was right on the row on. He has the sun dialed and you know it's -- we were just racing and the road was difficult all the time and you know being in -- is one thing but you know we're just really racing as fast as we could go and the separation happened on the dock on the backside and that was a little gap that kind of split us up but you know he was flying. It definitely wasn't easy out there.
Interviewer: Were you thinking that it might come down to a sprint or I mean what's going to happen on the last lap?
Tim Johnson: He's got a good kick on it. I'm not much of a sprinter so if I -- you know, if I had gone on a few more laps then I would have had to really try and dig and try to make it happen before the sprint because I would have picked him to run a sprint over me any day.
Interviewer: What's the different -- confidence to run through a race like this especially the altitude?
Tim Johnson: Well I mean that’s crazy but I don't -- he really is kicker because the last years that I've been coming here I've always had one day that you just kind of wonder to forget about because when you come out and see you can't go as hard as you want to go because as soon as you go super hard then you need time to recover and that’s kind of the name of the game here. So to have two days where you can actually get some ranges and powers also aside for --
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