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When I started racing there was a junior in my club who was better than me, and a very good climber, so we'd work together to set him up to contest for the win. After almost every race I'd get questions from other competitors as to why I'd helped him, and they would be incredulous when I said it was because he was better than me. In their view, I should have been using him as a foil to get my own results.